The Halloween season is upon us. It is a scary time of the year. What are YOU afraid of? C’mon admit it. There’s are a lot of fears or phobias, out there. And, there’s no shortage of Halloween phobias. Everybody has at least one phobia, and probably at least a few more. Perhaps you have Samhainophobia. That’s the fear of Halloween.
So, fess up to your fears, and the things that chill you to the bone. Tis the season to be scared ou of your wits.
There are a lot of fears or phobias, out there. Everybody has at least one phobia, and perhaps quite a few more. Halloween certainly has it’s share.
Whether you’re willing to fess up to the things that scare the daylights out of you, you may want to diagnose what those frightful things are called.
Here is a list of Halloween phobias we are aware of. However, if we’ve missed one, please let us know.
.Ps As a website about pumpkins, we sure hope you don’t have Cucurbitophobia !!
When it comes to phobia Halloween, there’s plenty to be afraid of. Here are some of the fears:
| Name: | Fear of: |
| Achluophobia | Darkness |
| Alliumphobia | Garlic |
| Arachnophobia | Spiders |
| Astraphobia | Thunder and Lightning |
| Bogyphobia | the Bogeyman |
| Catoptropobia | Mirrors |
| Ceraunophobia | Thunder |
| Chiroptophobia | Bats |
| Claustrophobia | Confined spaces, like coffins |
| Cleisiophobia | being locked in |
| Coimetrophobia | Cemetaries |
| Cucurbitophobia | pumpkins….heaven forbid!!! |
| Dementophobia | Insanity |
| Demonophobia | Demons |
| Eisoptrophobia | mirrors, or seeing oneself in a mirror |
| Formidophobia | Scarecrows |
| Hadephobia | Hell, or going to Hell |
| Hagiophobia | saints or holy things |
| Heliophobia | the sun, vampires beware |
| Hemophobia | blood |
| Noctiphobia | night |
| Nyctophobia | Darkenss |
| Ornithophobia | birds… like bats |
| Phasmophobia | ghosts |
| Placophobia | tombstones |
| Phobophobia | The fear of fears |
| Samhainophobia | Halloween, what’s to be afraid of!?! |
| Satanophobia | Satan |
| Sciophobia | Shadows |
| Spectrophobia | Specters or ghosts |
| Staurophobia | the crucifix |
| Taphephobia | being buried alive, especially in cemetaries |
| Triskaidekaphobia | The number 13 |
| Wiccaphobia | witches |
| Zoophobia | animals |
Skelephobia Skeletons
