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  2. List of phobias - Wikipedia

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    fear of amputees, and/or of becoming an amputee [9] [10] Aquaphobia: fear of water. Distinct from hydrophobia, a scientific property that makes chemicals averse to interaction with water, as well as an archaic name for rabies. Arachnophobia: fear of spiders and other arachnids such as scorpions, a zoophobia: Astraphobia: fear of thunder and ...

  3. Astraphobia - Wikipedia

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    Astraphobia, also known as astrapophobia, brontophobia, ceraunophobia, or tonitrophobia, is an abnormal fear of thunder and lightning or an unwarranted fear of scattered and/or isolated thunderstorms, a type of specific phobia. It is a treatable phobia that both humans and animals can develop.

  4. Cross-linguistic onomatopoeias - Wikipedia

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    Spanish: ñam: ñam ñam: glu glu glu, glup: glup: Swedish: nam-nam: nam nam: glugg glugg, klunk klunk: gulp: Tamil: கருக்கு முறுக்கு (karukk murukk) (mainly used to indicate crunching) Thai: งั่บ (ngap), ง่ำ (ngam) ง่ำ ง่ำ (ngam ngam) อึ้ก (uek), เอื้อก (ueak ...

  5. Nightmare - Wikipedia

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    In other languages, the word for "bad dream" similarly evolved in sense from words for "sleep paralysis," often with senses related to the pressure on the chest. For example, French cauchemar (the first element from old French chauchier "to press, trample," the second related to "mare"); Spanish pesadilla , from pesada "weight"; or Hungarian ...

  6. Does thunder in winter really mean snow will follow? A ...

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    Another wives’ tale says a lunar halo, or a ring seen around the moon, means wintery weather is on its way. (At least that’s what the Farmers’ Almanac says .)

  7. Foreign language anxiety - Wikipedia

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    Foreign language anxiety, however, is situation-specific and so it can also affect individuals who are not characteristically anxious in other situations. [2] Its main causes are communication-apprehension, test anxiety, and fear of negative evaluation. [2] There is also a psychological component to foreign language anxiety. [3]

  8. Thalassophobia - Wikipedia

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    The individual must feel this fear every time they are exposed to deep or open water; The individual either avoids the ocean or other open bodies of water or endure them with intense fear; The individual's fear of large bodies of water limits and interferes with their normal functioning; The individual's fear has been present for six months or ...

  9. Mare (folklore) - Wikipedia

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    The word mare comes (through Middle English mare) from the Old English feminine noun mære (which had numerous variant forms, including mare, mere, and mær). [2] Likewise are the forms in Old Norse/Icelandic mara [3] as well as the Old High German mara [5] (glossed in Latin as "incuba " [6]), [7] while the Middle High German forms are mar, mare, [8] [10]