These things are just the necks and I'm pretty certain that they aren't contaminated by the spiral.... but yeah. Anyway, the rokurokubi is a type of Japanese yokai (which I'm pretty sure are just Japanese demons) with stretched necks. There's another type where the heads come off completely and just float around called a nurekubi. They are apparently the original. There are loads of theories about these, so I'll just do this one, which comes with a story! Yay! The theory is that the stretched neck guys are a person's karma.
A monk from Enshu called Kashin eloped with this chick called Oyotsu. When the chick got ill and the monk ran out of money, he killed her. Obviously, he wasn't a very good monk. After that, he went back to a non-religious life because he wasn't a good boy any more and he slept with a girl at an inn. The girl's neck stretched and her face becme Oyotsu (his deady weddy waifu). She started dissing him about what happened and he started to regret it. Which, really, is pretty bad, considering that he didn't regret killing his wife straight after doing it. Then again, that guy in The Widower didn't regret it. Anyway, he told the one-night-stand, neck stretch chick's dad what he did and the dad just told him that he had also killed a chick before, stole her money and used it to start the inn. Of course, when his daughter was born, she became a rokurokubi. Kaishin got back into the Buddhist priest business, which, really, he shouldn't be allowed into because he killed his god damn wife. Anyway, he built a grave for her and it's said to be the 'Rokurokubi Mound' which tells the story for future generations~!
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