Talk:Rokurokubi

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Once Again Randomly Taking Out a Cross-Sections from the Anime/Manga Section Only Improves the Article
My whole argument with using material that's only a couple of years old when talking about Japanese Mythology is that it doesn't belong here and cheapens the experience for the rest of us who actually, you know, take this seriously. It's like someone from Peru using the text from Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter, as proof on the Lincoln page that he was known to fight vampires in Popular Culture because, once, somewhere obscure and long ago, there was a story that mentioned it. I know it is hard for 12 year old boys to imagine their manga comic books will not live on indefinitely but, without an actual reference to back up the claim that this once appeared in an issue of InuYasha and thus somehow important, I simply ask once again that the Pop Cult section remains shut up/ locked up and/or removed until someone with more love of the subject can do justice to the category and flesh it out with actual academic references, cheers! Duende-Poetry (talk) 18:47, 28 November 2011 (UTC)

OBE
"This last group stretch their necks out while asleep in an involuntary action; upon waking up in the morning, they find they have weird dreams regarding seeing their surroundings in unnatural angles."

This sounds an awful lot like an out-of-body experience, and I'd be surprised if it wasn't. Can it be incorporated into the article somehow? --OGoncho 06:11, 24 May 2006 (UTC)
 * You're right. But it would be nice to find a source to back up your hypothesis before including it in the article. (In fact, the whole article could use a few source citations.) — BrianSmithson 11:58, 24 May 2006 (UTC)

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Lede
Rokurokubi (ろくろ首, 轆轤首) is a type of Japanese yōkai (apparition). They look almost completely like humans with some differences. There is a type whose neck stretches and another whose head detaches and flies around freely (nukekubi). The Rokurokubi appear in classical kaidan (spirit tales) and in yōkai works.[1] It has been suggested, however, that the idea of rokurokubi may have been created for scaring people into staying in past midnight 2A02:2F08:290E:AB00:88E9:2936:22F8:A2A7 (talk) 07:16, 11 March 2022 (UTC)
 * You just copied the article lede here, twice. Why? Do you want to change the lede?