What the fright?

Many phobias are part of people’s everyday lives. You can’t get in a lift without hearing about claustrophobia; we know that spiders are unwelcome in an arachnophobe’s house, and everyone has a friend with a fear of flying (aerophobia). Here are some more obscure phobias you may not have heard of:

Alektorophobia – fear of chickens

Pogonophobia – fear of beards

Nephophobia – fear of clouds

Cryophobia – fear of ice or cold

Chronomentrophobia – fear of clocks

Ephebiphobia – fear of teenagers

Pteridophobia – fear of ferns

Porphyrophobia – fear of the color purple

Genuphobia – fear of knees

Onomatophobia – fear of names

Phobophobia – fear of phobias