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Arcane Anxieties: Obscure Phobia Lexicon
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Across
  • 1. Revulsion to jellied substances, wobbly and amorphous
  • 2. Mortuary nightmare—fear of being prematurely interred
  • 3. Phobia centered on eyelids, the blinkers of perception
  • 5. Aversion to the yellow spectrum, a chromatic dread
  • 8. Unease from shadows cast by one’s own feet
  • 12. Trepidation rooted in frozen precipitation, a winter’s dread
  • 14. Paralyzing anxiety linked to weakness or physical frailty
Down
  • 4. Pathological fear of pendulums, invoking Nietzsche's motif
  • 6. Aversion to the vital red fluid coursing through veins
  • 7. Irrational terror of wolves, evoking primal archetypes
  • 9. Ancient terror of thunder and lightning disturbances
  • 10. Fear derived from one's own mirrored reflections
  • 11. Fear endemic to darkness, from Greek for obscurity
  • 13. Fear of grown-together structures, from Greek for junction
  • 15. Phobia of feathered fliers, a terror of the air
  • 16. Rarity’s haunt: fear of events seldom encountered
  • 17. Dread inspired by cumulus and cirrus formations aloft

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