In the essay Mimibukuro by Negishi Shizumori, a woman who was rumored to be a rokurokubi is married, but manages to live well since the rumor was nothing more than a rumor. In the morning, the manservant asks to take leave and when asked why, the manservant asks, 'did a head come visit last night?' The priest answered yes, the manservant then explained that 'I have the nukekubi illness and I fear it will interfere with my work too much from now on.' The manservant went away to his home in ShimЕЌsa Province where this 'illness' was thought to be common. He grabs it and throws it away and it left. A priest is sleeping in his temple when a head appeared and approached his chest. ДЄlthough rokurokubi and nukekubi are usually female, in Shousai Hikki (и•‰ж–Ћз†иЁ), an Edo period tale, there is a nukekubi that is male. When the rokurokubi's head detached and flew in the air, the white dog appeared, bit the head and killed the rokurokobi. The woman is cured but her next-born daughter is a rokurokobi. The husband kills the pet dog and gives his wife the dog's liver as a medicant. A peddler has told her husband that the liver of a white dog will cure her.

1821 CE) by Matsura Seizan is a story which tells of a woman in Hitachi Province who has a terminal illness. In the ChuryЕЌ Manroku (дёй™µжј«йЊІ) is a tale which describes a 'Rokurokubi Village' in the recesses of Mount Yoshino where all the residents, even children, wore scarves to cover a line around their necks. The author made references to examples from Chinese books and then commented 'as these kinds of things were often seen in South-East Asia, not just limited to the creation of the heaven and earth, it is difficult to fathom them with ordinary common sense such as the idea that octopuses do not have eyes and as these things are unheard of in the capital, everything strange is in faraway lands.' In the same book, there is a story which tells of a woman in the village of Tawa, Nagao, ЕЊkawa District, Kagawa Prefecture (now Sanuki) who is a rokurokubi and has a ring-like bruise around her neck. It returned to normal the next day, but there was a line around her neck. In Higo Province (now Kumamoto Prefecture), the head of an innkeeper's wife leaves her body and floats in the air. In Kokon Hyaku Monogatari HyЕЌban (еЏ¤д»Љз™ѕз‰©иЄћи©•е€¤, 1686 CE), a book of ghost stories that explains yЕЌkai tales by Yamaoka Genrin, there is a chapter called How Priest Zetsugan saw Rokurokubi in Higo (зµ¶еІёе’Ње°љи‚ҐеѕЊгЃ«гЃ¦иЅ†иЅ¤й¦–г‚’и¦‹зµ¦гЃµдє‹, Zetsugan OshЕЌ Higo nite Rokurokubi wo Mitamou Koto). Later in the story, it was explained that it was not really the head, but rather the soul making the appearance of a head. The story goes: in the first year of Kansei, in Echigo Province (now Fukui Prefecture), there was a house maidservant whose head rolled off the pillow while she was asleep, detached from the body. Here too, it was interpreted to be an illness resulting in a detaching soul. HokusЕЌ Sadan (еЊ—зЄ»з‘Ји«‡, 1910 CE) is an Edo period essay by Tachibana Nankei (ж©жҐжљ‰). It is said that the woman had been shamed by a crime she has committed, so as a result, she left her husband, shaved her hair, and committed suicide. In About Rokurokubi in the Province of Echizen (г‚‘гЃЎгЃњг‚“гЃ®е›Ѕеєњдёг‚ЌгЃЏг‚Ќй¦–гЃ®дє‹, Echizen no Kuni FuchЕ« Rokurokubi no Koto), there is a story of a man who chases a nukekubi (who was a woman's soul detached from her body) all the way home. I ran away all the way back home and then I woke up.' (refer to picture).ДЄ different story appears in Shokoku Hyaku Monogatari (и«ёе›Ѕз™ѕз‰©иЄћ, 1677 CE) which drew a lot of inspiration from the Sorori Monogatari. The head fled into a home and people said that they heard a voice from inside say, 'I had a scary dream.

In the same book, a man saw a nukekubi that changed into a chick and a woman's head, so he took his sword and chased the head. For example, in the Sorori Monogatari (ж›ѕе‘‚е€©з‰©иЄћ, 1663 CE), in the chapter A Woman's Wild Thoughts Wandering Around (еҐігЃ®е¦„еїµиї·гЃІж©гЃЏдє‹, Onna no MЕЌnen Mayoiaruku Koto) the head separating from the body interpreted to be the woman's soul wandering while asleep. Sometimes, the action of the head separating from the body is seen as the soul wandering away from the body, i.e. Classical literature about rokurokubi describe tales of people witnessing and encountering floating heads at night time. It is theorized that the nukekubi has a weakness when it is sleeping and the head is floating around: if the body moves, then the head cannot be re-united to the body. Nukekubi sometimes perform bad deeds such as attacking at night and drinking their victims' blood. These were the last of the rokurokubi whereas the other kind came before. The nukekubi are rokurokubi whose heads come off and float about.

Wechizen no Kofuchuu Rokurokubi no Koto (г‚‘гЃЎгЃњг‚“гЃ®е›Ѕеєњдёг‚ЌгЃЏг‚Ќй¦–гЃ®дє‹) from the Shokoku Hyaku Monogatari (и«ёе›Ѕз™ѕз‰©иЄћ)

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