Word: triskaidekaphobia
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...members (all 13 of them) walked under ladders to enter a room covered with spilled salt. The club lasted for many years and grew to more than 400 members, including five U.S. Presidents: Chester Arthur, Grover Cleveland, Benjamin Harrison, William McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt. Despite the club's efforts, triskaidekaphobia (that's fear of the number 13) flourished; even today, most tall buildings don't have a 13th Floor...
Friday the 13? It seems triskaidekaphobia is sort of passe by now. But hell, I’ll take any excuse to make a list. So here goes, a superstitious mix-tape: Stevie Wonder’s “Superstition” (one of the greatest funk basslines of all time), Janet Jackson’s “Black Cat,” Thelonious Monk’s “Friday the 13th,” Cream’s version of “Born Under a Bad Sign,” and all the great...
...tachophobia: ... speed taphephobia: ... being buried alive tapinophobia: ... being contagious taurophobia: ... bulls technophobia: ... technology teleophobia: ... definite plans testophobia: ... taking tests thalassophobia: ... the sea thanatophobia: ... death or dying theatrophobia: ... theaters thermophobia: ... heat tocophobia: ... childbirth tonitrophobia: ... thunder toxiphobia: ... poison traumatophobia: ... injury tremophobia: ... trembling triskaidekaphobia: ... the number 13 trypanophobia: ... injections...
Probably to most of us the most common phobia is triskaidekaphobia, or fear of the number...
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