BOO! What Are YOU Afraid Of ????
Happy Halloween!
What are some of the spooky things you are afraid of? Well, here are some suggestions and the real names for them:
Achluophobia– Fear of darkness
Agrizoophobia- Fear of wild animals
Ailurophobia– Fear of cats
Arsonphobia– Fear of fire
Astraphobia or Astrapophobia– Fear of thunder and lightning
Atomosophobia- Fear of atomic explosions
Automatonophobia– Fear of ventriloquist’s dummies, animatronic creatures, wax statues – anything that falsely represents a sentient being
Ballistophobia– Fear of missiles or bullets
Bogyphobia- Fear of bogeys or the bogeyman
Chiroptophobia– Fear of bats
Coimetrophobia– Fear of cemeteries
Coulrophobia– Fear of clowns
Demonophobia or Daemonophobia- Fear of demons
Eisoptrophobia- Fear of mirrors or of seeing oneself in a mirror
Hadephobia- Fear of hell
Helminthophobia– Fear of being infested with worms.
Hemophobia or Hemaphobia or Hematophobia– Fear of blood
Herpetophobia– Fear of reptiles or creepy, crawly things
Hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia- Fear of the number 666
Iophobia– Fear of poison
Kosmikophobia– Fear of cosmic phenomenon
Lilapsophobia- Fear of tornadoes and hurricanes
Melanophobia– Fear of the color black
Merinthophobia– Fear of being bound or tied up
Necrophobia– Fear of death or dead things
Noctiphobia– Fear of the night
Nucleomituphobia– Fear of nuclear weapons
Nyctohylophobia- Fear of dark wooded areas or of forests at night
Ophidiophobia- Fear of snakes
Ornithophobia- Fear of birds
Paraskavedekatriaphobia- Fear of Friday the 13th
Phasmophobia– Fear of ghosts
Placophobia– Fear of tombstones
Pneumatiphobia– Fear of spirits
Pupaphobia – Fear of puppets
Samhainophobia: Fear of Halloween
Satanophobia– Fear of Satan
Scelerophibia– Fear of bad men, burglars
Sciophobia, Sciaphobia– Fear of shadows
Spectrophobia– Fear of specters or ghosts
Taphephobia, Taphophobia- Fear of being buried alive or of cemeteries
Triskaidekaphobia– Fear of the number 13
Wiccaphobia: Fear of witches and witchcraft
Happy and Safe Halloween from The Grammar Diva!
By the way – I will be a guest on A Novel Idea this Sunday at 7 p.m. on KCRB radio, 90.9 and 91.0 FM. We’ll be talking . . . grammar! What else!
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