Friday, lucky or not
In pagan times Friday was the luckiest day of the week because it was ruled by the planet Venus, the symbol of love and fortune. In fact, Friday is named in honor of Freya, goddess of Love. But for Christians, Friday has not been a good day. Adam and Eve is said to have eaten the forbidden fruit on a Friday and died on a Friday. Jesus was crucified on a Friday.
For centuries sailors refused to set sail on a Friday. It is told that when the reluctance of seamen to set sail on a Friday had [more...]

FEAR OF : PHOBIA
accidents : dystychiphobia
ageing : gerascophobia
air sickness : aeronausiphobia
air (fresh), draughts, wind : anemophobia
alcohol and drinking alcohol : dipsophobia or methyphobia
alone (being) or oneself or loneliness : autophobia
amphibians, such a frogs, toads, newts, salamanders, etc : batrachophobia
amnesia : amnesiophobia
animals : zoophobia
animals (wild) : agrizoophobia
angry (becoming): angrophobia : animal skin, fur : doraphobia
ants : myrmecophobia
asymmetrical things : asymmetriphobia
ataxia : ataxiophobia
atomic energy : nucleomitophobia
atomic explosions : atomosophobia
attack : scelerophobia
auroral lights : auroraphobia : automobiles : motorphobia
Phobias: A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | [more...]

FEAR OF :  PHOBIA
bad mens, burglars : scelerophibia
bacteria : bacillophobia
bald (becoming) : phalacrophobia
baldness : peladophobia
bathing : bathophobia or ablutophobia
beards : pogonophobia
beaten (being) : rhabdophobia (see also magic)
bed (going to) : clinophobia
bees : apiphobia
beggars : hobophobia
bearing a deformed child or deformed people : teratophobia
bicycles : cyclophobia
birds : ornithophobia
black (color) : melanophobia
blindness in visual field : scotomaphobia
blood : hemaphobia
blushing : erythrophobia (see also red)
body odour : bromhidrosiphobia
bogies or the bogeyman : bogyphobia
Bolsheviks : bolshephobia
books : bibliophobia
bound (being) or tied up : merinthophobia
bowel movements (painful) : defecaloesiophobia
brain disease : meningitophobia
bridges (crossing) : gephyrophobia
buildings (high) : batophobia
bullets : ballistophobia (see also missiles)
bulls : taurophobia
buried [more...]