Friday, October 26, 2012

OCTOBER 26: TWENTY-SIX CRAZY PHOBIAS

SO, TELL ME....WHAT ARE YOU AFRAID OF??

1) Coulrophobia - Fear of clowns

2) Eisoptrophobia - Fear of your own reflection

3) Parthenophobia - Fear of virgins or young girls

4) Cyprinophobia - Fear of prostitutes or veneral disease 

5) Elurophobia - Fear of cats 

6) Hobophobia - Fear of bums or beggars

7) Ithyphallophobia – Fear of Erections

8) Taphophobia – Fear of being Buried Alive

9) Coimetrophobia - Fear of cemeteries

10) Automatonophobia -  Fear of ventriloquist’s dummies, animatronic creatures, or wax statues

11)  Nyctophobia-  Fear of the dark or night

12) Odontophobia - Fear of dental surgery

13) Paraskavedekatriaphobia – Fear of Friday the 13th

14) Demonophobia (or Daemonophobia) - Fear of demons

15) Eosophobia - Fear of dawn or daylight

16) Pediophobia - Fear of dolls

17) Spectrophobia - Fear of ghosts or specters

18) Samhainophobia - Fear of Halloween

19) Menophobia - Fear of menstruation
20) Selenophobia - Fear of the moon

21) Spacephobia - Fear of outer space

22) Teleophobia - Fear of religious ceremonies

23) Selachophobia - Fear of sharks

24) Xenophobia - Fear of strangers or foreigners

25) Dishabillophobia - Fear of undressing in front of someone

26) Scoleciphobia - Fear of worms


KEY: 1) Amusement 2) Poltergeist 3) Halloween (1978) 4) Dressed to Kill 5) Pet Sematary 6) Hobo with a Shotgun 7) True Blood (tv) 8) The Serpent & the Rainbow 9) Cemetery Man 10) Magic 11) The Blair Witch Project 12) Marathon Man 13) Friday the 13th 14) Insidious 15) Daybreakers 16) The Woman in Black (2012) 17) Ghost Story 18) Trick 'r Treat 19) Carrie 20) The Wolfman 21) Alien 22) The Craft 23) Jaws 24) The Strangers 25) The Silence of the Lambs 26) Squirm

7 comments:

  1. have you been watchng the Disney Channel shorts Figaro Pho. They are also doing phobias once a day on their website and roku channel.

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  2. Nope, can't say I watch much Disney Channel - no kids in my home :)

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  3. My phobia isn't on here! Genuphobia!! Fear of knee caps. I'm not kidding, I'm really terrified of them. The scene in Kill List was very hard for me, hahaha.

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  4. Rodophobia = fear of Jervaise Brooke Hamster ! ! !.

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  5. jervaise brooke hamsterOctober 26, 2012 at 7:22 PM

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  6. What movie is #7 from? I can't figure out the movie that combines erections with horror. lol

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  7. Marie: You're afraid of knee-caps? Worse than that, there is actually a phobia for that? Wow, I learned something new today!

    Vanessa: I added a key at the end of the post. #7 is from the TV show True Blood. Jason had a very hard time in that episode.

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