Word: ailurophobia
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...ablutophobia: fear of bathing acarophobia: ... itching acerophobia: ... sourness achluophobia: ... darkness acousticophobia: ... noise acrophobia: ... heights aerophobia: ... drafts, air agliophobia: ... pain agoraphobia: ... open spaces agrizoophobia: ... wild animals agyrophobia: ... crossing the street aichmophobia: ... needles and other pointed objects ailurophobia: ... cats albuminurophobia:.. .kidney disease alektorophobia: ... chickens alliumphobia: ... garlic allodoxaphobia: ... opinions amathophobia: ... dust amaxophobia: ... riding in a car ambulophobia: ... walking amychophobia: ... being scratched anablephobia: ... looking up androphobia: ... men anemophobia: ... wind Anglophobia: ... Britain anthophobia: ... flowers antlophobia: ... floods anuptaphobia: ... staying single apeirophobia: .... infinity apiphobia: ... bees arachibutyrophobia: ... peanut butter sticking to roof of mouth arachnophobia: ... spiders arithmophobia: ... numbers asthenophobia: ... fainting astrophobia: ... celestial space ataxiophobia: ... muscular incoordination ataxophobia: ... untidiness...
...films. With the adoption of a Production Code in 1922, the major studios ostensibly promised to renounce the ribald. Into that vacuum crept sideshowmen like Dwain Esper, who directed (ludicrously) and promoted (brilliantly) the first grindhouse classics. The 1934 Maniac, about a mad scientist's even daffier assistant whose ailurophobia leads him to rip out a cat's eye and eat it ("Why, it's not unlike an oyster"), pretended to be a serious study of dementia praecox. Esper used the old carny come-on--it's so sinful you have to pay to see it--in Tell Your Children...
Investigators have never reached a consensus on ailurophobia-extreme fear of cats. Some postulate a traumatic childhood experience with felines, while others blame the cat's galvanizing stare, or disdain for affection, or even its slippery, furred coat and unfriendly, arching backbone. Traditional superstitions still exist: cats suck the breath from sleeping infants, sour fresh milk, forecast the phases of the moon and serve Satan. A black cat is bad luck. According to old belief, a cat, through necromancy or something even more unfathomable, has been given nine lives. Such Draculatic positions, however, are rare. Cats themselves often seem...
Your article on books promoting the cult of ailurophobia, the hatred or fear of cats [Sept. 21], reminds me of the Chinese proverb: "He whodislikes the cat was in his former life...
...thing, since the triumph of Poland's Solidarity union movement, Polish jokes are out. For another, many people are being made aware of long-hidden resentment of the pampered pets and their golden-eyed contempt toward the humans privileged to support them. Pop Psychologist Joyce Brothers regards ailurophobia, at least in its literary form, as a harmless put-on. "If you get upset at this," she says, "you have too much emotional involvement in your pet." Harvey Mindess, an authority on the psychology of humor, sniffs: "101 Uses proves that there are a lot of ten-year-olds...