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Pediophobia – Fear of Dolls

8/6/2013

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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.

Creepy Buuildings Containing Creepy Dolls!

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I often venture to a place called Old Tailem Town which is a pioneer village here in South Australia. Asides from the fact it is considered one of the most haunted villages in Australia there is something else about it that illicits cries and shrieks from those who venture there in the dark on tour/investigations.

Many of the old buildings are home to dolls and mannequins. At times these artificial humanoid figures can put more of a scare in people than the ghosts themselves. I have seen people break down after their torch light passes over a mannequin... it gets even worse when that mannequin happens to be holding a doll.

For some it is the unexpected humanoid shape lurking in the darkness but for a few its what it is that is really scary... a doll.

Pediophobia

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Pediophobia is a fear of dolls and mannequins (also sometimes used as a fear of children). It is a branch of automatonophobia which is a fear of anything that falsely represents a sentient creature. People with Pediophobia essentially have what those without consider a irrational fear of dolls.

For them walking through a toy shop can be a extreme excercise of willpower as such places are generally studded with plastic and cloth humanoid, childlike shapes with cold dead eyes staring back at them. At the more extreme those who also fear mannequins can avoid entire shopping districts as they are usually studded with fake humans displying the seasons current fashions.

The fear can come stem from multiple sources mainly either a traumatic event, usually during childhood, where a doll was the cause or a matter of focus during the event or psychological/brain chemistry that causes the individual to associate the image with fear.

Like all phobias symptoms of distress caused by the object can show as something minor as frustration all the way to a full panic attack. Also, depending on why the fear exists if the phobia is triggered it can cause an individual to snap and lose complete control of their anger or cause depression, crying and nausea.

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Finding a doll creepy is not to say you have this phobia.

If you are not a big fan of dolls here are some movies you might wish to avoid:

Puppetmaster
Dolls
Poltergeist
Childsplay
Dolly Dearest

(If you know of any other movies someone with a phobia should steer clear of, post in the comments below.)

Ashley Hall 2013

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