NUKEKUBI ぬけくび

Nukekubi means Removable neck and occurs in ordinary women.

DIET: Regular food by day, blood by night.

APPEARANCE: This is a variant type of Rokurokubi, knows as Nukekubi, is 

similar in most respects to the first type, except that the head detaches itself 

completely from the body rather than stretching out an elongated neck.

BEHAVIOR: This type is much more violent and because their head is 

detached they can travel greater distances, additionally they often posses a 

thirst for blood.

The flying head usually sucks the blood of its victim like a vampire, but    

occasionally brutally bites both human and animal to death.

ORIGIN: Uncured, this curse has the potential to tear a family a part, 

particularly due to the more violent nature of this variant.

A diagnosis reveals that ぬけくび suffer from an affliction similar to 

somnambulism, only instead of walking about at night, the patient’s entire soul 

and head depart from the body. 

Girls afflicted with this curse were usually sold off to live in brothels or in human 

circuses, or else forced to submit to an honorable death by suicide to preserve 

their family Honor.

I inserted in this illustration a picture of FRITILLARIA CAMSHATCENSIS  

黒百合 (Kuroyuri) inside her dress necklines.

This flower represents love and curse.