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 Around the globe many people claim to have had encounters with gigantic spiders - spiders that in some cases are larger than dogs and capable of dragging away a human.
Are these monsters freaks of nature, a species thought to be extinct or works of wild imaginations?
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 Trypanophobia, also known as needle phobia, is the fear of injections, medical procedures including injections and hypodermic needles.
Not too many people would say they enjoy getting an injection, but those with this phobia have real fear, so much so that many avoid all medical treatment when possible, just in case a needle becomes involved.  Pediophobia, fear of dolls, is quite a common phobia. It falls into a similar branch of phobias as fearing robots, shadows and animatronic creatures.
Dolls are creepy, especially older, cracked and broken ones, but whereas someone may shudder when looking at these pictures, those with the phobia will have a much larger, negative, reaction.  Although arachnophobia comes from the Greek word 'arachne', meaning spider, the fear also branches out to all arachnids, including scorpions.
An estimated 5% of people suffer from arachnophobia, but a much larger percentage of the population cannot avoid the crazy dance one performs after suddenly walking through a spiders web...  Coulrophobia is defined as an abnormal fear of clowns. The term appeared in the mid 1980's, and is believed to originate from the Greek term for stilt walkers, and, of course, phobia - meaning fear or anxiety.
It is thought the fear itself comes from a revulsion of things similar to human form, yet exaggerated, or not perfect. Plus, clowns are just damned creepy... |
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