13 Phobias

Colleen at The Thursday 13 holds a weekly blogging prompt where bloggers make a list of 13 things on Thursdays. The topic is for you to choose. The blog host doesn't have any official graphics to display on the Thursday 13 posts, so I decided to whip one up myself. 🙂

 

On Wednesday, at work, it was too hot for playing pickleball, so we met at our center instead after the all-staff meeting. We've done a lot of Kahoot quizzes, and today was one on phobias. I did not know most of them, so I guessed. I ended up the highest score after coming from behind. Most of these were new to me. Do you recognize any of these?

1. Metrophobia: Fear of poetry
2. Hylophobia: Fear of trees
3. Panophobia: Fear of unknown evil
4. Fayophobia: Fear of elves
5. Climacophobia: Fear of climbing
6. Hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia: Fear of the number 666
7. Cetaphobia: Fear of whales
8. Pogonophobia: Fear of beards
9. Ophidiophobia: Fear of snakes
10. Petraphobia: Fear of rocks
11. Sesquipedalophobia: Fear of long words
12. Ommetaphobia: Fear of eyes
13. Arachibutyrophobia: Fear of getting peanut butter stuck to the roof of your mouth

Can you believe these exist? Some of these seem like bizarre things to fear!

The quiz was 24 questions so there are others not listed here. A few came up that I already know, like arachnophobia and claustrophobia. I think most people know those two.