Word: phobias
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...origins of the popular fear concerning Friday the thirteenth one would probably be forced to delve into the Sanskrit or worse. Suffice to say that it is doubtless the most prevalent example of universal phobia in the world. Even minds otherwise destitute of primitive prejudices based on fears are tinged with an irrational suspicion of the day and demonstrate strange stubborness in hesitating to take up any task with such an inauspicious beginning. It is a quite elemental but quite human emotion...
...Tires. Monte Blue is a picture actor whose popularity a great many people have been at a loss to explain. Again it must be said that if you are one of those who like Monte Blue you will not mind this picture. He starts out with a phobia against motor cars and comes to know them. The old, old automobile chase ends up the picture in tiresomely popular fashion...
...devised the preventive treatment for human rabies (hydro- phobia...