Some Spooky Words and Fears for your Halloween Season!

To celebrate Halloween in an educated way, here are some spooky words for you, thanks to Dictionary.com. 
 1) horripilation - noun [haw-rip-uh-ley-shuhn, ho-] a bristling of the hair on the skin from cold, fear, etc.; goose bumps. 
  How is horripilation used?I can’t have been the only person who spent the evening in a pretty much constant state of horripilation. ALEXIS SOLOSKI, "REVIEW: IN 'ALL IS CALM,' THRILLING SONG IN THE TRENCHES," NEW YORK TIMES, NOVEMBER 25, 2018 

 2) chthonian  -adjective [thoh-nee-uhn] Classical Mythology. of or relating to the deities, spirits, and other beings dwelling under the earth. 
How is chthonian used? The streets throng with crowds of dapper skeletons and chthonian floats.CHRISTOPHER ORR, "SPECTRE: BOND DOESN'T NEED AN ORIGIN STORY," THE ATLANTIC, NOVEMBER 6, 2015 

 3) psychotronic - adjective [sahy-kuh-tron-ik] of or relating to a genre of usually low-budget movies that includes horror, fantasy, science-fiction, and underground films.

4) numinous-  adjective [noo-muh-nuhs, nyoo-] spiritual or supernatural.

WHAT DO YOU FEAR? - These words are all about things people fear. Anemophobia- Fear of air drafts or wind
- Arachnophobia - Fear of Spiders!
- Bogyphobia- Fear of bogeys or the bogeyman.
- Chrioptophobia - Fear of Bats 


- Demonophobia or Daemonophobia- Fear of demons
- Hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia- Fear of the number 666.
- Necrophobia – fear of death and/or the dead

- Nyctophobia- An abnormal fear of night or darkness.
- Panphobia – fear of everything or constant fear of an unknown cause
- Phasmophobia – fear of ghosts or phantoms
- Sepulchral 
1. Proper to or suggestive of a tomb; funereal or dismal.
2. Of or pertaining to burial.
3. Of, pertaining to, or serving as a tomb.
4. Hollow and deep: sepulchral tones. 
- Taphophobia, taphephobia – fear of the grave, or fear of being placed in a grave while still alive - Thanatophobia -  fear of dying

OTHER  FEARS:
- Ablutophobia- Fear of washing or bathing.
- Alektorophobia- Fear of chickens.
- Algophobia- Fear of pain. 
-  Brontophobia- Fear of thunder and lightning.
- Cacophobia- Fear of ugliness.
- Chiraptophobia- Fear of being touched.
- Claustrophobia- Fear of being in small spaces
- Cynophobia- Fear of dogs or rabies.
- Eisoptrophobia- Fear of mirrors or of seeing oneself in a mirror.
- Electrophobia- Fear of electricity.
- Glossophobia- Fear of speaking in public or of trying to speak.  
- Heliophobia – fear of the sun or sunlight
- Musophobia, murophobia, suriphobia – fear of mice and/or rats
- Nosophobia – fear of contracting a disease
 

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To Learn the difference between Ghosts and Spirits and how they communicate with us, check out Rob Gutro's books:  Lessons Learned from Talking to the Dead , Ghosts and Spirits, Ghosts of England on a Medium's Vacation, Kindred Spirits: How a Medium Befriended a Spirit; Pets and the Afterlife 1 and 2. 
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