This document discusses various phobias and provides details on their causes and characteristics. It begins with an introduction to phobias and definitions. Specific phobias that are described include claustrophobia, the common fear of enclosed spaces, and coulrophobia, the fear of clowns often due to their exaggerated features in movies and portrayals as villains. The document also discusses arachnophobia, the fear of spiders which comes from a Greek myth, and tries to explain the root of various other phobias such as the fear of snakes, water, darkness, school, phobias, garlic, and needles. It closes with a quiz reviewing the information presented.

1. Facts About
Phobias
By Caroline Godfrey

2. Introduction
There are many phobias in the world, but have you
ever wondered WHY people fear those things? This
report will tell you why people fear clowns and why
claustrophobia is so common. ENJOY!!!!!

3. some info about the word
phobia
•Comes from the greek
word phobos, meaning
fear.
•Phobos was the son of
Ares, the greek god of
war.
•People painted his face
on their shields to
scare their enemies.

4. Claustrophobia
This is an
irrational fear of
enclosed spaces.
It’s a common
phobia. Most
people use it as
an expression
like,“I feel
claustropobic.”
Help I’mHelp I’m
claustrophobic!claustrophobic!

5. Coulrophobia
This is the fear of clowns. It is believed to be caused
by the makeup that the clowns wear that exaggerate
their facial features. People also fear clowns because
of movies and The Joker from Batman. These
clowns are portrayed as evil villains and killers.

6. Tell me this isn’t
freaky!

7. Arachnophobia
This is the fear of spiders. The word Arachne is the Greek word for spider. It comes
from a greek myth about how spiders came to be.

8. The Greek myth about first spider
Athena, the Greek goddess of wisdom,battle strategy
cursed a mortal girl named Arachne who challenged her
to a weaving contest and was EXTREMELY rude. She
changed her into a spider so for the rest of her life she
would be forced to weave in the dull color of grey. The
moral of the story is to NEVER challenge a goddess or
god to an activity that they invented.
Athena
Arachne

9. Ophidiophobia
•The fear of snakes. This fear is sometimes confused with
herpetophobia, or the fear of reptiles. The fear is actually
learned.

10. Hydrophobia
Hydrophobia is the
fear of water. It is
usually a symtom of
rabies. When you have
rabies you have
trouble swallowing
water so some how it
develops.

11. Nyctophobia
The bogey man,
Dracula, the monsters
under your bed.
These monsters lurk
in the dark and make
you hide under your
covers. They usually
cause this fear of the
dark. most people
grow out of it as they
mature, but for some
it lasts a long time.

12. Scolionophobia
The fear of school. This is a fear that is crazy
but true!!! It fear usually occurs because kids
don’t want to leave their parents.
I am not responsible for any claims that a child can’t go to school because they have this
phobia.

13. The fear of being alone. Some
people cannot relax unless
someone is near them, such as in
another room, while others must
have someone in the same room as
them. If they are completely alone
the person might have an anxiety
attack. HyHy from the “School of
Fear” books has a so severe case of
autophobia that she thinks shes
BFFs with everyone she meets.

14. Phobophobia
The fear of phobias.
People usually develop
this fear if they already
have a phobia. Over
time it can worsen and
cause you to gain even
more phobias.

15. Alliumphobia
The fear of garlic.
People with
this
phobia suffer panic
attacks
when close to
garlic. If vampires
existed then I bet
that they would
have Alliumphobia.

16. Trypanophobia
The fear of
needles/injections.
There are many ways
that scientists believe
you can get
Trypanophobia but
the most common
way is that it is
inherited.

17. Those are only a few of the many
phobias in the world!
Thanks for watching
my slideshow and I
hope you enjoyed it!
The next two pages
are a quiz over what
I covered in my
report. Good luck!

18. Quiz
•1. What is the fear of water?
•2. What is the fear of school?
•3. Who might have alliumphobia?
•4. What is a very common phobia?
•5. Who was the first spider according to the Greek
myth?

19. Quiz Answers
•1. Hydrophobia
•2. Scolionophobia
•3. A vampire
•4. Claustrophobia
•5. Arachne

20. sources
• psychology.about.com
• google images
• http://zidbits.com/2011/12/the-top-10-old-wives-tales
• Hamilton, James G. “Needle phobia: a neglected diagnosis.” Journal of Family Practice. August, 1995.
June 28, 2008. http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0689/is_n2_v41/ai_17276569
• http://common-phobias.com/Scholiono/phobia.htm
• http://www.phobiasource.com/alliumphobia-2/
• American Psychiatric Association. (1994). Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders (4th Ed.).
Washington, DC: Author.
• http://phobias.about.com/od/phobiaslist/a/nyctophobia.htm