BOO! What Are YOU Afraid Of ????

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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