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.::.Phobias A-Z.::.

2009-06-16T18:05:00.000-07:00

Ablutophobia- Fear of washing or bathing.
Acarophobia- Fear of itching or of the insects that cause itching.
Acerophobia- Fear of sourness.
Achluophobia- Fear of darkness.
Acousticophobia- Fear of noise.
Acrophobia- Fear of heights.
Aerophobia- Fear of drafts, air swallowing, or airbourne noxious substances.
Aeroacrophobia- Fear of open high places.
Aeronausiphobia- Fear of vomiting secondary to airsickness.
Agateophobia- Fear of insanity.
Agliophobia- Fear of pain.
Agoraphobia- Fear of open spaces or of being in crowded, public places like markets. Fear of leaving a safe place.
Agraphobia- Fear of sexual abuse.
Agrizoophobia- Fear of wild animals.
Agyrophobia- Fear of streets or crossing the street.
Aichmophobia- Fear of needles or pointed objects.
Ailurophobia- Fear of cats.
Albuminurophobia- Fear of kidney disease.
Alektorophobia- Fear of chickens.
Algophobia- Fear of pain.
Alliumphobia- Fear of garlic.
Allodoxaphobia- Fear of opinions.
Altophobia- Fear of heights.
Amathophobia- Fear of dust.
Amaxophobia- Fear of riding in a car.
Ambulophobia- Fear of walking.
Amnesiphobia- Fear of amnesia.
Amychophobia- Fear of scratches or being scratched.
Anablephobia- Fear of looking up.
Ancraophobia- Fear of wind.
(Anemophobia)Androphobia- Fear of men.
Anemophobia- Fear of air drafts or wind.
(Ancraophobia) Anginophobia- Fear of angina, choking or narrowness.
Anglophobia- Fear of England or English culture, etc.
Angrophobia - Fear of anger or of becoming angry.
Ankylophobia- Fear of immobility of a joint.
Anthrophobia or Anthophobia- Fear of flowers.
Anthropophobia- Fear of people or society.
Antlophobia- Fear of floods.
Anuptaphobia- Fear of staying single.
Apeirophobia- Fear of infinity.
Aphenphosmphobia- Fear of being touched.
(Haphephobia)Apiphobia- Fear of bees.
Apotemnophobia- Fear of persons with amputations.
Arachibutyrophobia- Fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of the mouth.
Arachnephobia or Arachnophobia- Fear of spiders.
Arithmophobia- Fear of numbers.
Arrhenphobia- Fear of men.
Arsonphobia- Fear of fire.
Asthenophobia- Fear of fainting or weakness.
Astraphobia or Astrapophobia- Fear of thunder and lightning.(Ceraunophobia, Keraunophobia)Astrophobia- Fear of stars or celestial space.
Asymmetriphobia- Fear of asymmetrical things.
Ataxiophobia- Fear of ataxia. (muscular incoordination)
Ataxophobia- Fear of disorder or untidiness.
Atelophobia- Fear of imperfection.
Atephobia- Fear of ruin or ruins.
Athazagoraphobia- Fear of being forgotton or ignored or forgetting.
Atomosophobia- Fear of atomic explosions.
Atychiphobia- Fear of failure.
Aulophobia- Fear of flutes.
Aurophobia- Fear of gold.
Auroraphobia- Fear of Northern lights.
Autodysomophobia- Fear of one that has a vile odor.
Automatonophobia- Fear of ventriloquist's dummies, animatronic creatures, wax statues - anything that falsly represents a sentient being.
Automysophobia- Fear of being dirty.
Autophobia- Fear of being alone or of oneself.
Aviophobia or Aviatophobia- Fear of flying.
Bacillophobia- Fear of microbes.
Bacteriophobia- Fear of bacteria.
Ballistophobia- Fear of missiles or bullets.
Bolshephobia- Fear of Bolsheviks.
Barophobia- Fear of gravity.
Basophobia or Basiphobia- Inability to stand. Fear of walking or falling.
Bathmophobia- Fear of stairs or steep slopes.
Bathophobia- Fear of depth.
Batophobia- Fear of heights or being close to high buildings.
Batrachophobia- Fear of amphibians, such as frogs, newts, salamanders, etc.
Belonephobia- Fear of pins and needles.
(Aichmophobia)Bibliophobia- Fear of books.
Blennophobia- Fear of slime.
Bogyphobia- Fear of bogeys or the bogeyman.
Botanophobia- Fear of plants.
Bromidrosiphobia or Bromidrophobia- Fear of body smells.
Brontophobia- Fear of thunder and lightning.
Bufonophobia- Fear of toads.
Cacophobia- Fear of ugliness.
Cainophobia or Cainotophobia- Fear of newness, novelty.
Caligynephobia- Fear of beautiful women.
Cancerophobia or Carcinophobia- Fear of cancer.
Cardiophobia- Fear of the heart.
Carnophobia- Fear of meat.
Catagelophobia- Fear of being ridiculed.
Catapedaphobia- Fear of jumping from high and low places.
Cathisophobia- Fear of sitting.
Catoptrophobia- Fear of mirrors.
Cenophobia or Centophobia- Fear of new things or ideas.
Ceraunophobia or Keraunophobia- Fear of thunder and lightning.(Astraphobia, Astrapophobia)Chaetophobia- Fear of hair.
Cheimaphobia or Cheimatophobia- Fear of cold.(Frigophobia, Psychophobia)
Chemophobia- Fear of chemicals or working with chemicals.
Cherophobia- Fear of gaiety.
Chionophobia- Fear of snow.
Chiraptophobia- Fear of being touched.
Chirophobia- Fear of hands.
Cholerophobia- Fear of anger or the fear of cholera.
Chorophobia- Fear of dancing.
Chrometophobia or Chrematophobia- Fear of money.
Chromophobia or Chromatophobia- Fear of colors.
Chronophobia- Fear of time.
Chronomentrophobia- Fear of clocks.
Cibophobia- Fear of food.(Sitophobia, Sitiophobia)
Claustrophobia- Fear of confined spaces.
Cleithrophobia or Cleisiophobia- Fear of being locked in an enclosed place.
Cleptophobia- Fear of stealing.
Climacophobia- Fear of stairs, climbing, or of falling downstairs.
Clinophobia- Fear of going to bed.
Clithrophobia or Cleithrophobia- Fear of being enclosed.
Cnidophobia- Fear of stings.
Cometophobia- Fear of comets.
Coimetrophobia- Fear of cemeteries.
Coitophobia- Fear of coitus.
Contreltophobia- Fear of sexual abuse.
Coprastasophobia- Fear of constipation.
Coprophobia- Fear of feces.
Coulrophobia- Fear of clowns.
Counterphobia- The preference by a phobic for fearful situations.
Cremnophobia- Fear of precipices.
Cryophobia- Fear of extreme cold, ice or frost.
Crystallophobia- Fear of crystals or glass.
Cyberphobia- Fear of computers or working on a computer.
Cyclophobia- Fear of bicycles.
Cymophobia or Kymophobia- Fear of waves or wave like motions.
Cynophobia- Fear of dogs or rabies.
Cypridophobia or Cypriphobia or Cyprianophobia or Cyprinophobia - Fear of prostitutes or venereal disease.
Decidophobia- Fear of making decisions.
Defecaloesiophobia- Fear of painful bowels movements.
Deipnophobia- Fear of dining or dinner conversations.
Dementophobia- Fear of insanity.
Demonophobia or Daemonophobia- Fear of demons.
Demophobia- Fear of crowds. (Agoraphobia)
Dendrophobia- Fear of trees.
Dentophobia- Fear of dentists.
Dermatophobia- Fear of skin lesions.
Dermatosiophobia or Dermatophobia or Dermatopathophobia- Fear of skin disease.
Dextrophobia- Fear of objects at the right side of the body.
Diabetophobia- Fear of diabetes.
Didaskaleinophobia- Fear of going to school.
Dikephobia- Fear of justice.
Dinophobia- Fear of dizziness or whirlpools.
Diplophobia- Fear of double vision.
Dipsophobia- Fear of drinking.
Dishabiliophobia- Fear of undressing in front of someone.
Domatophobia- Fear of houses or being in a house.(Eicophobia, Oikophobia)
Doraphobia- Fear of fur or skins of animals.
Doxophobia- Fear of expressing opinions or of receiving praise.
Dromophobia- Fear of crossing streets.
Dutchphobia- Fear of the Dutch.
Dysmorphophobia- Fear of deformity.
Dystychiphobia- Fear of accidents.
Ecclesiophobia- Fear of church.
Ecophobia- Fear of home.
Eicophobia- Fear of home surroundings.(Domatophobia, Oikophobia)
Eisoptrophobia- Fear of mirrors or of seeing oneself in a mirror.
Electrophobia- Fear of electricity.
Eleutherophobia- Fear of freedom.
Elurophobia- Fear of cats. (Ailurophobia)
Emetophobia- Fear of vomiting.
Enetophobia- Fear of pins.
Enochlophobia- Fear of crowds.
Enosiophobia or Enissophobia- Fear of having committed an unpardonable sin or of criticism.
Entomophobia- Fear of insects.
Eosophobia- Fear of dawn or daylight.
Ephebiphobia- Fear of teenagers.
Epistaxiophobia- Fear of nosebleeds.
Epistemophobia- Fear of knowledge.
Equinophobia- Fear of horses.
Eremophobia- Fear of being oneself or of lonliness.
Ereuthrophobia- Fear of blushing.
Ergasiophobia- 1) Fear of work or functioning. 2) Surgeon's fear of operating.
Ergophobia- Fear of work.
Erotophobia- Fear of sexual love or sexual questions.
Euphobia- Fear of hearing good news.
Eurotophobia- Fear of female genitalia.
Erythrophobia or Erytophobia or Ereuthophobia- 1) Fear of redlights. 2) Blushing. 3) Red.
Febriphobia or Fibriphobia or Fibriophobia- Fear of fever.
Felinophobia- Fear of cats. (Ailurophobia, Elurophobia, Galeophobia, Gatophobia)
Francophobia- Fear of France or French culture. (Gallophobia, Galiophobia)
Frigophobia- Fear of cold or cold things.(Cheimaphobia, Cheimatophobia, Psychrophobia)
Galeophobia or Gatophobia- Fear of cats.
Gallophobia or Galiophobia- Fear France or French culture. (Francophobia)
Gamophobia- Fear of marriage.
Geliophobia- Fear of laughter.
Geniophobia- Fear of chins.
Genophobia- Fear of sex.
Genuphobia- Fear of knees.
Gephyrophobia or Gephydrophobia or Gephysrophobia- Fear of crossing bridges.
Germanophobia- Fear of Germany or German culture.
Gerascophobia- Fear of growing old.
Gerontophobia- Fear of old people or of growing old.
Geumaphobia or Geumophobia- Fear of taste.
Glossophobia- Fear of speaking in public or of trying to speak.
Gnosiophobia- Fear of knowledge.
Graphophobia- Fear of writing or handwriting.
Gymnophobia- Fear of nudity.
Gynephobia or Gynophobia- Fear of women.
Hadephobia- Fear of hell.
Hagiophobia- Fear of saints or holy things.
Hamartophobia- Fear of sinning.
Haphephobia or Haptephobia- Fear of being touched.
Harpaxophobia- Fear of being robbed.
Hedonophobia- Fear of feeling pleasure.
Heliophobia- Fear of the sun.
Hellenologophobia- Fear of Greek terms or complex scientific terminology.
Helminthophobia- Fear of being infested with worms.
Hemophobia or Hemaphobia or Hematophobia- Fear of blood.
Heresyphobia or Hereiophobia- Fear of challenges to official doctrine or of radical deviation.
Herpetophobia- Fear of reptiles or creepy, crawly things.
Heterophobia- Fear of the opposite sex. (Sexophobia)
Hierophobia- Fear of priests or sacred things.
Hippophobia- Fear of horses.
Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia- Fear of long words.
Hobophobia- Fear of bums or beggars.
Hodophobia- Fear of road travel.
Hormephobia- Fear of shock.
Homichlophobia- Fear of fog.
Homilophobia- Fear of sermons.
Hominophobia- Fear of men.
Homophobia- Fear of sameness, monotony or of homosexuality or of becoming homosexual.
Hoplophobia- Fear of firearms.
Hydrargyophobia- Fear of mercurial medicines.
Hydrophobia- Fear of water or of rabies.
Hydrophobophobia- Fear of rabies.
Hyelophobia or Hyalophobia- Fear of glass.
Hygrophobia- Fear of liquids, dampness, or moisture.
Hylephobia- Fear of materialism or the fear of epilepsy.
Hylophobia- Fear of forests.
Hypengyophobia or Hypegiaphobia- Fear of responsibility.
Hypnophobia- Fear of sleep or of being hypnotized.
Hypsiphobia- Fear of height.
Iatrophobia- Fear of going to the doctor or of doctors.
Ichthyophobia- Fear of fish.
Ideophobia- Fear of ideas.
Illyngophobia- Fear of vertigo or feeling dizzy when looking down.
Iophobia- Fear of poison.
Insectophobia - Fear of insects.
Isolophobia- Fear of solitude, being alone.
Isopterophobia- Fear of termites, insects that eat wood.
Ithyphallophobia- Fear of seeing, thinking about or having an erect penis.
Japanophobia- Fear of Japanese.
Judeophobia- Fear of Jews.
Kainolophobia or Kainophobia- Fear of anything new, novelty.
Kakorrhaphiophobia- Fear of failure or defeat.
Katagelophobia- Fear of ridicule.
Kathisophobia- Fear of sitting down.
Kenophobia- Fear of voids or empty spaces.
Keraunophobia or Ceraunophobia- Fear of thunder and lightning.(Astraphobia, Astrapophobia)Kinetophobia or Kinesophobia- Fear of movement or motion.
Kleptophobia- Fear of stealing.
Koinoniphobia- Fear of rooms.
Kolpophobia- Fear of genitals, particularly female.
Kopophobia- Fear of fatigue.
Koniophobia- Fear of dust. (Amathophobia)
Kosmikophobia- Fear of cosmic phenomenon.
Kymophobia- Fear of waves. (Cymophobia)
Kynophobia- Fear of rabies.
Kyphophobia- Fear of stooping.
Lachanophobia- Fear of vegetables.
Laliophobia or Lalophobia- Fear of speaking.
Leprophobia or Lepraphobia- Fear of leprosy.
Leukophobia- Fear of the color white.
Levophobia- Fear of things to the left side of the body.
Ligyrophobia- Fear of loud noises.
Lilapsophobia- Fear of tornadoes and hurricanes.
Limnophobia- Fear of lakes.
Linonophobia- Fear of string.
Liticaphobia- Fear of lawsuits.
Lockiophobia- Fear of childbirth.
Logizomechanophobia- Fear of computers.
Logophobia- Fear of words.
Luiphobia- Fear of lues, syphillis.
Lutraphobia- Fear of otters.
Lygophobia- Fear of darkness.
Lyssophobia- Fear of rabies or of becoming mad.
Macrophobia- Fear of long waits.
Mageirocophobia- Fear of cooking.
Maieusiophobia- Fear of childbirth.
Malaxophobia- Fear of love play. (Sarmassophobia)
Maniaphobia- Fear of insanity.
Mastigophobia- Fear of punishment.
Mechanophobia- Fear of machines.
Medomalacuphobia- Fear of losing an erection.
Medorthophobia- Fear of an erect penis.
Megalophobia- Fear of large things.
Melissophobia- Fear of bees.
Melanophobia- Fear of the color black.
Melophobia- Fear or hatred of music.
Meningitophobia- Fear of brain disease.
Menophobia- Fear of menstruation.
Merinthophobia- Fear of being bound or tied up.
Metallophobia- Fear of metal.
Metathesiophobia- Fear of changes.
Meteorophobia- Fear of meteors.
Methyphobia- Fear of alcohol.
Metrophobia- Fear or hatred of poetry.
Microbiophobia- Fear of microbes. (Bacillophobia)
Microphobia- Fear of small things.
Misophobia or Mysophobia- Fear of being contaminated with dirt or germs.
Mnemophobia- Fear of memories.
Molysmophobia or Molysomophobia- Fear of dirt or contamination.
Monophobia- Fear of solitude or being alone.
Monopathophobia- Fear of definite disease.
Motorphobia- Fear of automobiles.
Mottephobia- Fear of moths.
Musophobia or Muriphobia- Fear of mice.
Mycophobia- Fear or aversion to mushrooms.
Mycrophobia- Fear of small things.
Myctophobia- Fear of darkness.
Myrmecophobia- Fear of ants.
Mythophobia- Fear of myths or stories or false statements.
Myxophobia- Fear of slime. (Blennophobia)
Nebulaphobia- Fear of fog. (Homichlophobia)
Necrophobia- Fear of death or dead things.
Nelophobia- Fear of glass.
Neopharmaphobia- Fear of new drugs.
Neophobia- Fear of anything new.
Nephophobia- Fear of clouds.
Noctiphobia- Fear of the night.
Nomatophobia- Fear of names.
Nosocomephobia- Fear of hospitals.
Nosophobia or Nosemaphobia- Fear of becoming ill.
Nostophobia- Fear of returning home.
Novercaphobia- Fear of your step-mother.
Nucleomituphobia- Fear of nuclear weapons.
Nudophobia- Fear of nudity.
Numerophobia- Fear of numbers.
Nyctohylophobia- Fear of dark wooded areas or of forests at night.
Nyctophobia- Fear of the dark or of night.
Obesophobia- Fear of gaining weight.(Pocrescophobia)
Ochlophobia- Fear of crowds or mobs.
Ochophobia- Fear of vehicles.
Octophobia - Fear of the figure 8.
Odontophobia- Fear of teeth or dental surgery.
Odynophobia or Odynephobia- Fear of pain. (Algophobia)
Oenophobia- Fear of wines.
Oikophobia- Fear of home surroundings, house.(Domatophobia, Eicophobia)
Olfactophobia- Fear of smells.
Ombrophobia- Fear of rain or of being rained on.
Ommetaphobia or Ommatophobia- Fear of eyes.
Oneirophobia- Fear of dreams.
Oneirogmophobia- Fear of wet dreams.
Onomatophobia- Fear of hearing a certain word or of names.
Ophidiophobia- Fear of snakes. (Snakephobia)
Ophthalmophobia- Fear of being stared at.
Opiophobia- Fear medical doctors experience of prescribing needed pain medications for patients.
Optophobia- Fear of opening one's eyes.
Ornithophobia- Fear of birds.
Orthophobia- Fear of property.
Osmophobia or Osphresiophobia- Fear of smells or odors.
Ostraconophobia- Fear of shellfish.
Ouranophobia or Uranophobia- Fear of heaven.
Pagophobia- Fear of ice or frost.
Panthophobia- Fear of suffering and disease.
Panophobia or Pantophobia- Fear of everything.
Papaphobia- Fear of the Pope.
Papyrophobia- Fear of paper.
Paralipophobia- Fear of neglecting duty or responsibility.
Paraphobia- Fear of sexual perversion.
Parasitophobia- Fear of parasites.
Paraskavedekatriaphobia- Fear of Friday the 13th.
Parthenophobia- Fear of virgins or young girls.
Pathophobia- Fear of disease.
Patroiophobia- Fear of heredity.
Parturiphobia- Fear of childbirth.
Peccatophobia- Fear of sinning or imaginary crimes.
Pediculophobia- Fear of lice.
Pediophobia- Fear of dolls.
Pedophobia- Fear of children.
Peladophobia- Fear of bald people.
Pellagrophobia- Fear of pellagra.
Peniaphobia- Fear of poverty.
Pentheraphobia- Fear of mother-in-law. (Novercaphobia)
Phagophobia- Fear of swallowing or of eating or of being eaten.
Phalacrophobia- Fear of becoming bald.
Phallophobia- Fear of a penis, esp erect.
Pharmacophobia- Fear of taking medicine.
Phasmophobia- Fear of ghosts.
Phengophobia- Fear of daylight or sunshine.
Philemaphobia or Philematophobia- Fear of kissing.
Philophobia- Fear of falling in love or being in love.
Philosophobia- Fear of philosophy.
Phobophobia- Fear of phobias.
Photoaugliaphobia- Fear of glaring lights.
Photophobia- Fear of light.
Phonophobia- Fear of noises or voices or one's own voice; of telephones.
Phronemophobia- Fear of thinking.
Phthiriophobia- Fear of lice. (Pediculophobia)
Phthisiophobia- Fear of tuberculosis.
Placophobia- Fear of tombstones.
Plutophobia- Fear of wealth.
Pluviophobia- Fear of rain or of being rained on.
Pneumatiphobia- Fear of spirits.
Pnigophobia or Pnigerophobia- Fear of choking of being smothered.
Pocrescophobia- Fear of gaining weight. (Obesophobia)
Pogonophobia- Fear of beards.
Poliosophobia- Fear of contracting poliomyelitis.
Politicophobia- Fear or abnormal dislike of politicians.
Polyphobia- Fear of many things.
Poinephobia- Fear of punishment.
Ponophobia- Fear of overworking or of pain.
Porphyrophobia- Fear of the color purple.
Potamophobia- Fear of rivers or running water.
Potophobia- Fear of alcohol.
Pharmacophobia- Fear of drugs.
Proctophobia- Fear of rectums.
Prosophobia- Fear of progress.
Psellismophobia- Fear of stuttering.
Psychophobia- Fear of mind.
Psychrophobia- Fear of cold.
Pteromerhanophobia- Fear of flying.
Pteronophobia- Fear of being tickled by feathers.
Pupaphobia - Fear of puppets.
Pyrexiophobia- Fear of Fever.
Pyrophobia- Fear of fire.
Radiophobia- Fear of radiation, x-rays.
Ranidaphobia- Fear of frogs.
Rectophobia- Fear of rectum or rectal diseases.
Rhabdophobia- Fear of being severely punished or beaten by a rod, or of being severely criticized. Also fear of magic.(wand)
Rhypophobia- Fear of defecation.
Rhytiphobia- Fear of getting wrinkles.
Rupophobia- Fear of dirt.
Russophobia- Fear of Russians.
Samhainophobia: Fear of Halloween.
Sarmassophobia- Fear of love play. (Malaxophobia)
Satanophobia- Fear of Satan.
Scabiophobia- Fear of scabies.
Scatophobia- Fear of fecal matter.
Scelerophibia- Fear of bad men, burglars.
Sciophobia Sciaphobia- Fear of shadows.
Scoleciphobia- Fear of worms.
Scolionophobia- Fear of school.
Scopophobia or Scoptophobia- Fear of being seen or stared at.
Scotomaphobia- Fear of blindness in visual field.
Scotophobia- Fear of darkness. (Achluophobia)
Scriptophobia- Fear of writing in public.
Selachophobia- Fear of sharks.
Selaphobia- Fear of light flashes.
Selenophobia- Fear of the moon.
Seplophobia- Fear of decaying matter.
Sesquipedalophobia- Fear of long words.
Sexophobia- Fear of the opposite sex. (Heterophobia)
Siderodromophobia- Fear of trains, railroads or train travel.
Siderophobia- Fear of stars.
Sinistrophobia- Fear of things to the left or left-handed.
Sinophobia- Fear of Chinese, Chinese culture.
Sitophobia or Sitiophobia- Fear of food or eating. (Cibophobia)
Snakephobia- Fear of snakes. (Ophidiophobia)
Soceraphobia- Fear of parents-in-law.
Social Phobia- Fear of being evaluated negatively in social situations.
Sociophobia- Fear of society or people in general.
Somniphobia- Fear of sleep.
Sophophobia- Fear of learning.
Soteriophobia - Fear of dependence on others.
Spacephobia- Fear of outer space.
Spectrophobia- Fear of specters or ghosts
.Spermatophobia or Spermophobia- Fear of germs.
Spheksophobia- Fear of wasps.
Stasibasiphobia or Stasiphobia- Fear of standing or walking. (Ambulophobia)
Staurophobia- Fear of crosses or the crucifix.
Stenophobia- Fear of narrow things or places.
Stygiophobia or Stigiophobia- Fear of hell.
Suriphobia- Fear of mice.
Symbolophobia- Fear of symbolism.
Symmetrophobia- Fear of symmetry.
Syngenesophobia- Fear of relatives.
Syphilophobia- Fear of syphilis.
Tachophobia- Fear of speed.
Taeniophobia or Teniophobia- Fear of tapeworms.
Taphephobia Taphophobia- Fear of being buried alive or of cemeteries.
Tapinophobia- Fear of being contagious.
Taurophobia- Fear of bulls.
Technophobia- Fear of technology.
Teleophobia- 1) Fear of definite plans. 2) Religious ceremony.
Telephonophobia- Fear of telephones.
Teratophobia- Fear of bearing a deformed child or fear of monsters or deformed people.
Testophobia- Fear of taking tests.
Tetanophobia- Fear of lockjaw, tetanus.
Teutophobia- Fear of German or German things.
Textophobia- Fear of certain fabrics.
Thaasophobia- Fear of sitting.
Thalassophobia- Fear of the sea.
Thanatophobia or Thantophobia- Fear of death or dying.
Theatrophobia- Fear of theatres.
Theologicophobia- Fear of theology.
Theophobia- Fear of gods or religion.
Thermophobia- Fear of heat.
Tocophobia- Fear of pregnancy or childbirth.
Tomophobia- Fear of surgical operations.
Tonitrophobia- Fear of thunder.
Topophobia- Fear of certain places or situations, such as stage fright.
Toxiphobia or Toxophobia or Toxicophobia- Fear of poison or of being accidently poisoned.
Traumatophobia- Fear of injury.
Tremophobia- Fear of trembling.
Trichinophobia- Fear of trichinosis.
Trichopathophobia or Trichophobia- Fear of hair. (Chaetophobia, Hypertrichophobia)Triskaidekaphobia- Fear of the number 13.
Tropophobia- Fear of moving or making changes.
Trypanophobia- Fear of injections.
Tuberculophobia- Fear of tuberculosis.
Tyrannophobia- Fear of tyrants.
Uranophobia or Ouranophobia- Fear of heaven.
Urophobia- Fear of urine or urinating.
Vaccinophobia- Fear of vaccination.
Venustraphobia- Fear of beautiful women.
Verbophobia- Fear of words.
Verminophobia- Fear of germs.
Vestiphobia- Fear of clothing.
Virginitiphobia- Fear of rape.
Vitricophobia- Fear of step-father.
Walloonphobia- Fear of the Walloons.
Wiccaphobia: Fear of witches and witchcraft.
Xanthophobia- Fear of the color yellow or the word yellow.
Xenoglossophobia- Fear of foreign languages.
Xenophobia- Fear of strangers or foreigners.
Xerophobia- Fear of dryness.
Xylophobia- 1) Fear of wooden objects. 2) Forests.
Xyrophobia-Fear of razors.
Zelophobia- Fear of jealousy.
Zeusophobia- Fear of God or gods.
Zemmiphobia- Fear of the great mole rat.
Zoophobia- Fear of animals.

.:.:.Things to Ponder.:.:.

2009-06-12T07:07:00.000-07:00

1. At a movie theater, which arm rest is yours?
2. Do they bury people with their braces on?
3. How far east can you go before you're heading west?
4. If you were to get drunk in a country where the drinking limit is under 21, and went to the states and were still over the limit, could they arrest you for underage drinking even though you did not do the drinking in the states.
5. Is it rude for a deaf person to talk (sign) with their mouth full of food?
6. When does it stop being partly cloudy and start being partly sunny?
7. Are eyebrows considered facial hair?
8. Since bread is square, then why is sandwich meat round?
9. Do they have the word "dictionary" in the dictionary?
10. Why is it that on a phone or calculator the number five has a little dot on it?
11. If ghosts can walk through walls and glide down stairs, why don't they fall through the floor?
12. If a doctor suddenly had a heart attack while doing surgery, would the other doctors work on the doctor or the patient?
13. How can something be "new" and "improved"? if it's new, what was it improving on?
14. Why aren't drapes double sided so it looks nice on the inside and outside of your home?
15. Why are the little styrofoam pieces called peanuts?
16. Why are they called 'Jolly Ranchers'? Who said that the ranchers were jolly?
17. Can a short person "talk down" to a taller person?
18. If a bald person works as a chef at a restaurant, do they have to wear a hairnet?
19. Do prison buses have emergency exits?
20. When lightning strikes the ocean why don't all the fish die?
21. If a guy that was about to die in the electric chair had a heart attack should they save him?
22. Why do we sing "Rock a bye baby" to lull a baby to sleep when the song is about putting your baby in a tree and letting the wind crash the cradle on the ground?
23. If parents say, "Never take candy from strangers" then why do we celebrate Halloween?
24. Can cannibals be arrested for being under the influence of alcohol (e.g. drunk-driving) if they have eaten someone who was drunk?
25. If Mars had earthquakes would they be called marsquakes?
26. If an ambulance is on its way to save someone, and it runs someone over, does it stop to help them?
27. Why is it called a funny bone, when if you hit it, it's not funny at all?
28. Do you yawn in your sleep?
29. Do Chinese people get English sayings tattooed on their bodies?
30. Do glow-in-the-dark objects stop glowing when somebody turns the lights on?
31. How come lemon washing up liquid contains real lemons, but lemon juice contains artificial flavorings.
32. Do you wake up or open your eyes first?
33. Did Noah have woodpeckers on the ark? If he did, where did he keep them?
34. How do you handcuff a one-armed man?
35. If the FBI breaks your door down do they have to pay for it?
36. In some books, why do they have blank pages at the very end?
37. Why do overalls have belt loops, since they are held up at the top by the straps?
38. Do the security guards at airports have to go through airport security when they get to work?
39. Why are all of the Harry Potter spells in Latin if they're English?
40. Are children who act in rated 'R' movies allowed to see them?
41. How come cats butts go up when you pet them?
42. What would happen to the sea's water level if every boat in the World was taken out of the water at the same time?
43. How come you never see a billboard being put up by the highway?
44. Do the English people eat English muffins, or are they just called muffins?
45. How much deeper would the ocean be if sponges didn't grow in it?
46. Why is it that no matter what color bubble bath you use the bubbles are always white?
47. Why do superheros wear their underwear on the outside of their clothes?
48. Why does someone believe you when you say there are four billion stars, but check when you say the paint is wet?
49. Why Does Pluto Live in a dog house, eat dog food, etc. but Goofy, who is also a dog, lives in a condo and drives a car?
50. If you blew a bubble in space would it pop?
51. How did the first women ever to shave their legs know that the skin wouldn't just peel right off?
52. When a pregnant lady has twins, is there 1 or 2 umbilical cords?
53. Why doesn't Winnie the Pooh ever get stung by the bees he messes with?
54. Why do they put holes in crackers?
55. Can you still say "Put it where the sun don't shine " on a nude beach?
56. What do people in China call their good plates?
57. How come toy hippos are always blue, or purple, when real hippos are brown?
58. Why don't woodpeckers get headaches when they slam their head on a tree all day?
59. If someone owns a piece of land, do they own it all the way to the center of the earth?
60. If an escalotor breaks down, does it become stairs?
61. Why do they call him Donkey Kong if he is not a donkey?
62. If you put a chameleon in a room full of mirrors, what color would it turn?
63. Why do British people never sound British when they sing?
64. Why do we press the start button to turn off the computer?
65. Do your eyes change color when you die?
66. Do sheep get static cling when they rub against one another?
67. If people with one arm go to get their nails done, do they pay half price?
68. If you had a three story house and were in the second floor, isn't it possible that you can be upstairs and downstairs at the same time?
69. What happens when you put a lightsaber in water?
70. If I had my legs amputated, would I have to change my height and weight on my driver's license?
71. If nobody buys a ticket to a movie do they still show it?
72. How do you tell when you run out of invisible ink?
73. Why people are so scared of mice,which are much smaller than us, when no one seems to be scared of Micky Mouse, who is bigger than us?
74. Why are the numbers on a calculator and a phone reversed?
75. When your photo is taken for your driver's license, why do they tell you to smile? If you are stopped by the police and asked for your license, are you going to be smiling?
76. Do butterflies remember life as a caterpillar?
77. Why do people constantly return to the refrigerator with hopes that something new to eat will have materialized?
78. Where do people in Hell tell other people to go?
79. If prunes are dehydrated plums, where does prune juice come from?
80. If there's an exception to every rule, is there an exception to that rule?
81. When you're caught "between a rock and a hard place", is the rock not hard?
82. If there were a thousand seaguls in an airplane while its flying, each weighing two pounds a piece, but they were all flying in the airplane, would the airplane weigh 2000 pounds more?
83. If you soak a raisin in water, does it turn back into a grape?
84. How important does a person have to be before they are considered assassinated instead of just murdered?
85. Why do they call steam rollers, steam rollers? They don't produce, get rid of, or have anythong to do with steam
86. What is another word for "thesaurus"?
87. Why is it called Alcoholics Anonymous when the first thing you do is stand up and say, 'My name is Bob and I am an alcoholic'?
88. Why are they called stairs inside but steps outside?
89. Why does mineral water that 'has trickled through mountains for centuries' have a 'use by' date?
90. Why do toasters always have a setting that burns the toast to a horrible crisp no one would eat?
91. Why do people point to their wrist when asking for the time, but don't point to their crotch when they ask where the bathroom is?
92. Why is a person that handles your money called a 'Broker'?
93. If quizzes are quizzical, what are tests?
94. Did you ever notice that when you blow in a dog's face, he gets mad at you, but when you take him on a car ride, he sticks his head out the window?
95. If corn oil is made from corn, and vegetable oil is made from vegetables, then what is baby oil made from?
96. If a person with multiple personalities threatens suicide is that considered a hostage situation?
97. Why don't they just make mouse-flavored cat food?
98. Why do you press harder on a remote-control when you know the battery is weak?
99. Since Americans throw rice at weddings, do Asians throw hamburgers?
100. Why are they called buildings, when they're already finished? Shouldn't they be called builts?

x-Random-Facts-in-Life-x

2009-06-08T07:11:00.000-07:00

I was searching through a bunch of links last night being bored to death so I decided to look up random facts on the internet about different things to see the different things that I could find. These are some of the ones that I found that most of the people on this earth wouldn't know about.. { but then again most people wouldn't be so bored as to go on the internet and look facts up lol }
1. In the average lifetime, a person will walk the equivalent of 5 times around the equator.
2. Odontophobia is the fear of teeth.
3. The 57 on Heinz ketchup bottles represents the number of varieties of pickles the company once had.
4. According to suicide statistics, Monday is the favored day for self-destruction. [way to ruin the week for everyone else eh?]
5. Karoke means "empty orchestra" in Japanese.
6. The Eisenhower interstate system requires that one mile in every five must be straight. These straight sections are usable as airstrips in times of war or other emergencies.
7. When you die your hair still grows for a couple of months.
8. It would take 11 Empire State Buildings, stacked one on top of the other, to measure the Gulf of Mexico at its deepest point.
9. The most money ever paid for a cow in an auction was $1.3 million. {that must have been some pretty tasty meat}
10.Each of the suits on a deck of cards represents the four major pillars of the economy in the middle ages: heart represented the Church, spades represented the military, clubs represented agriculture, and diamonds represented the merchant class.
11. The sound of E.T. walking was made by someone squishing her hands in jelly.
12. The pancreas produces Insulin.
13. 1 in 5,000 north Atlantic lobsters are born bright blue.
14. There are 10 human body parts that are only 3 letters long (eye hip arm leg ear toe jaw rib lip gum).
15. A skunk's smell can be detected by a human a mile away.
16. Every year about 98% of the atoms in your body are replaced.
17. Elephants are the only mammals that can't jump.
18. Women are 37% more likely to go to a psychiatrist than men are.
19. When snakes are born with two heads, they fight each other for food.
20. Diet Coke was only invented in 1982.
21. There are twice as many kangaroos in Australia as there are people. The kangaroo population is estimated at about 40 million.
22.The average person makes about 1,140 telephone calls each year.
23. Stressed is Desserts spelled backwards.
24. If you had enough water to fill one million goldfish bowls, you could fill an entire stadium.
25. Charlie Brown's father was a barber.
26. The average person spends about 2 years on the phone in a lifetime.
27. The fist product to have a bar code was Wrigleys gum.
28. The bagpipe was originally made from the whole skin of a dead sheep.
29. The roar that we hear when we place a seashell next to our ear is not the ocean, but rather the sound of blood surging through the veins in the ear. Any cup-shaped object placed over the ear produces the same effect.
30. A car that shifts manually gets 2 miles more per gallon of gas than a car with automatic shift.
31. Cats can hear ultrasound.
32. Children grow faster in the springtime.
33. Every human spent about half an hour as a single cell.
34. The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.
35. "Goodbye" came from "God bye" which came from "God be with you."
36. The elephant is the only animal with 4 knees.
37. Kansas state law requires pedestrians crossing the highways at night to wear tail lights.
38. The science of kissing is called philematology.
39. The insulting slang “kiss my ass” dates back at least to 1705.
40. In the average adult, the skin covers 12-20 square feet and accounts for 12% of body weight.
41. Humans produce about 10,000 gallons of saliva in a lifetime.
42. The heart beats more than 2.5 billion times in an average lifetime.
43. Worldwide, it is estimated that about 162 million adults use marijuana at least once per year, and 22.5 million use the drug daily.
44. Sugar and cocoa are often added to cigarettes, a fact many diabetic smokers are unaware of.
45. Gold has been discovered on every continent on earth. It is also edible.
46. The month of March is named after Mars.
47. Throughout the United States, approximately 4% of the population self-identifies as gay, lesbian, or bisexual.
48. Cockroaches can live for 9 days after their head has been cut off.
49. In Cleveland, Ohio it is illegal to catch mice without a hunting license.
50. Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't wear pants.
51. The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
52. Coca-Cola was originally green.
53. If you add up the numbers 1-100 consecutively (1+2+3+4+5 etc) the total is 5050.
54. In Sweden there is a ski-thru Mcdonalds.
55. Pinocchio is Italian for "pine head."
56. No president of the United States was an only child.
57. Apples are more effective at keeping people awake in the morning than caffeine.
58. Mosquitoes have 47 teeth.
59. Until the nineteenth century, solid blocks of tea were used as money in Siberia.
60. Tourists visiting Iceland should know that tipping at a restaurant is considered an insult.
61. During your lifetime, you'll eat about 60,000 pounds of food, that's the weight of about 6 elephants.
62. Dolphins sleep with one eye open.
63. A sneeze travels out your mouth at over 100 m.p.h.
64. Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails.
65. The tune for the "A-B-C" song is the same as "Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star."
66. A new baby usually deprives it's parents of 400-750 hours of sleep in the first year.
67. The word "set" has more definitions than any other word in the English language.
68. Men can read smaller print than women can; women can hear better.
69. The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.
70. The youngest pope was 11 years old.
71. If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs in The air, the person died in battle. If the horse has one front leg in The air the person died as a result of wounds received in battle. If the Horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.
72. Honey is the only food that doesn't spoil.
73. 40% of all people at a party will snoop through your medicine cabinet
74. In Scotland, a new game was invented. It was entitled Gentlemen Only Ladies Forbidden.... and thus the word GOLF entered into the English language.
75. If you tell a crowd that you can't lick youur own elbow, 75% of them will try it.
76. The largest meteorite crater in the world is in Winslow, Arizona. It is 4,150 feet across and 150 feet deep. 77. Coca-Cola translated to Chinese means, "To make mouth happy".
78. Average lifespan of a major league baseball is 7 pitches.
79. Tiger Woods is the highest paid athlete. He makes around $80 million per year (or $219,000 per day).
80. Your forearm is the same length as your foot.
81. Every year, kids in North America spend close to half a billion dollars on chewing gum!
82. No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver and purple.
83. In 1994, there were four murders and eight attempted murders of abortion providers in the United States. In 2004, there were zero.
84. The human eye blinks an average of 4,200,000 times a year.
85. There are only four words in the common English language that end in "-dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
86. It is possible to lead a cow upstairs...but not downstairs.
87. The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
88. Mel Blanc (the voice of Bugs Bunny) was allergic to carrots.
89. A giraffe has a 20-inch tongue.
90. 'Stewardesses' is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.
91. Men get hiccups more often than women.
92. The number of left-handed men is double that of left-handed women.
93. The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
94. Reindeer like to eat bananas.
95. Vikings used the skulls of their enemies as drinking vessels.
96. A fetus develops fingerprints at eighteen weeks!
97. 2 and 5 are the only prime numbers that end in 2 or 5.
98. The only letter not appearing on the Periodic Table is the letter “J”.
99. The word "democracy" is banned in online chat rooms in China. 100. Marilyn Monroe had six toes. {Who knew?}

Enjoy! =)

Bloody Mary & The Candy Man

2009-05-19T07:44:00.000-07:00

There are about a million and one different stories behind Bloody Mary and all of them seem to be different. Even the people who do is have different ways of doing it, some just turn the lights off and say bloody mary, bloody mary, bloody mary then she is supposed to appear in your mirror and kill you. Others light candles and close their eyes and whatever other crazy ideas they come up with. Some say that they have seen her some say that nothing happened, but really if you have never seen her then how are you supposed to believe the people who say they have. Some say that she was part of royal family and she was Mary I who was the queen of England from July 19th 1553 until her death. She restored England to Roman Catholisicm. She earned the name Bloody Mary because she had almost 300 religious dissenters burned at the stake in the Marian Persecutions. The most common story of Bloody Mary is.. " Bloody Mary was said to be a witch. She sold herbal remedies to make her living and lived in a small cottage set way back in a forest. People in a nearby village were frightened of her and feared angering her, believing she could do many terrible things such as make their children sick or make their cows stop producing milk..In time, the little girls from the village began to vanish. Their families, struck with enormous grief, began to search for them. Unfortunately, the little girls were nowhere to be found. No houses or barns or building were left unchecked, they searched high and low, near and far. But, still no sign of the girls. A few of the braver villagers even searched the witch's cottage... still no sign of the missing girls. Bloody Mary claimed to have no involvement. Her claim wasn't believed by the people of the village. Bloody Mary's appearance made a drastic change. No more was the scary, haggard woman they were all scared of. She looked young and pretty, but even still, there was no evidence that she'd done anything to the girls.One night, as the Miller's wife sat in the kitchen with a toothache, she watched in horror as her daughter, who seemed to be in a trance, walked out of their home. She took off after her as she screamed for her husband and together they tried to hold the girl back, but she kept breaking free. To their despair, their little girl continued to walk further and further from the town. Their cries in the night, brought many a neighbor to their aid and before long a light was spotted at the edge of the woods by one of the town's farmers. Immediately, some of the townsmen were rushing toward the light. When they reached her, she was glowing as she pointed her magic wand toward the miller's daughter.Hearing the ruckus, Bloody Mary tried to flee to the safety of the dark woods. One of the townsmen had loaded his gun with silver bullets just in case his own daughter was ever in danger. He took a shot at the witch, hitting her hip and she fell to the earth. The outraged men grabbed her up and hauled her into a field. They built a fire. Then, they burned her at the stake.Before she died, Bloody Mary voiced her curse, stating that anyone who dare mention her name would die a gruesome death at the hand of her vengeful spirit. Eventually the graves of the lost girls were found near the witches cottage. She'd used their blood to restore her youth. It is said now, that if you are brave enough to say Bloody Mary's name three times in front of a mirror, she will come for you, tear your body into pieces and steal your soul. Your soul will suffer never ending torture as you will burn in the mirror for eternity. Are you brave enough to try it?.. Everybody at one point or another when they are kids go into the bathroom and try out the myth. Most people get freaked out and run out of the bathroom because the image of themselves in the mirror gets the best of them. Some say that if you bloody mary baby 3 times that she will show up in your mirror with a baby all covered in blood.
The story behind the Candy Man is similar to Bloody Mary, the story is just a little bit different. The story behind the Candy man is that he is a son of a former slave that got rich by designing a show making machine in the 1800's. He was killed for impregnating the daughter of a wealthy white guy. The killers cut off his right hand and smeared him with honey to let the bee's sting him to death {I'd say thats punishment enough}.. After that, they burnt the body on a pyre. It is said that the Candy Man's spirit wants revenge and when he is summoned he appears with a hook replacing his right hand ans metes out a heavy punishment for people foolish enough to invoke his name. Candyman is also a movie that was made in 1992. The plot line is ""They will say I have shed innocent blood. What is blood for, if not for shedding?" Based on the novel "Forbidden" by Clive Barker and Directed by Bernard Rose, Candyman is a chilling tale of what happens when modern folklore bleeds into reality.
Set in the city of Chicago, Bernadette Walsh (Virginia Madsen) is working on a University thesis about the origins of modern day myths. She starts her research by investigating the legend of the "Candyman", a hookhanded figure from the late 1800's, that is supposedly terrorising the residents of Caprini Green housing estate.
People claim that the killer can be summoned by looking into the mirror and speaking his name 5 times. Bernadette doesn't believe any of this of course and exposes the "Candyman" as being the leader of a gang of thugs on the estate, who is the person that's really been terrorising the residents. She then goes on to say the name in the mirror 5 times in order to finally disprove any lingering doubts about the myths credibility.
This turns out to be a bad idea, as the REAL Candyman (Tony Todd), appears soon after to prove that the legends about him are all too real. Fantasy and reality then begin to blur as the Candyman carves his way through several victims, each time implicating Helen, in order to perpetuate the myth about him. The tag line for the movie is "Dare you to say his name 5 times".. Do you dare?

Superstitions

2009-05-04T07:45:00.000-07:00

As a first time blogger, I really couldn't decide on what I wanted to write my blog about so I decided that I am going to write about superstitions. Superstition in latin (superstitio) means literally "standing over". It is used in Latin as an unreasonable or excessive belief or fear in magic, especially foreign or fantastical ideas. There are some pretty crazy and pointless superstitions out there today such as walking under a ladder is bad luck or friday the 13th. People fear what they don't know so they make up silly superstitions and follow rituals to try to understand things. People knock on wood to not jinx something, they don't walk under ladders because {while it should be common sense}, a triangle was considered a symbol of life and anyone who walked through any kind of triangle was said to be tempting fate. In 1972, a song called superstition was performed by Stevie Wonder for Motown Records. There are also the superstitious meanings of dreams. Some of the ones about superstitions dealing with death include: a bird in a house is a sign of death, the cemetary.. your supposed to hold your breath while passing a cemetary or it is said that you will breath in the spirit of a recently deceased person, because that sounds appealing.. not. {my personal favourite}. Another great one is that if 3 people are photographed together, that the person in the middle will die first. (I feel sorry for those of you who are always in the middle). The greatest wedding superstition is "If a single woman goes to bed with a piece of wedding cake under her pillow, she will dream of her future husband" (first of all who puts cake under their pillow, and even if she does dream of him how is she expected to find him?). People come up with superstitions because it makes them feel safer about certain things. Everybody is different though so while some people rely on the rituals of superstitions, others don't believe anything about them. If you want to check out a list of superstitions, here is a site that you can read all about them.. http://www.superstitions.ca/ Enjoy!