The Romance of the Milky Way, and Other Studies & Stories

s as dissimilar as a pulley, a capstan, a windlass, a turning lathe, and a potter's wheel. Such renderings of Rokuro-Kubi as "Whirling-Neck" and "Rotating-Neck" are unsatis

ro-Kubi there is a curious story in my "Kwaidan," translated from the Japanese.) In Chinese mythology the being whose neck is so constructed as to allow of the head being completely detached belongs to a special class; but in Japanese folk-tale this distinction is not always maintained. One of the bad habits attributed to the Rokuro-Kubi is that of drinking the oil

ida

i kam

-wak

ro ni

o-Kub

led by sleep, the Rokuro-Kubi stretches her

ama

ono n

ro-K

odo

kara

ishment her own body (left behind) cry out, "

a-no

e tsut

uro

kéta

o kow

rops of the roof), the Rokuro-Kubi laughs with the so

sha

ni n

uro

a, go

chijim

five-foot person would have become shortened by fear (or, "the sta