Cryptic Terrors: Esoteric Phobias in Narrative Lore
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Challenging puzzle for experienced crossword solvers
Esoteric Phobias of Arcane Fiction
Challenging puzzle for experienced crossword solvers
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- 1. Fear of clothing entwined with identity and disguise
- 2. Dread of mirrors reflecting cursed or altered selves
- 3. Nightmarish fear of sleep, common among restless spirits
- 4. Work aversion tormenting inventors and reluctant laborers
- 5. Social dread gripping isolationist or haunted characters
- 8. Pathological dread of failure, haunting tragic heroes
- 9. Temporal anxiety disrupting immortal or cursed beings
- 12. Fear of flowers that plagues enchanted realms
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- 6. Fear of dark forests where shadows whisper ominous tales
- 7. Burial anxiety afflicting undead and crypt dwellers
- 10. Intense aversion to cleansing, plaguing cursed immortals
- 11. Rain aversion possibly rooted in mythic storm omens
- 13. Classic terror of ghosts, often central to spectral lore
- 14. Supernatural terror of hands, a limb-based neurosis
- 15. Fear of ugliness or deformity, common in dystopian tales
- 16. Childhood horror of boogeymen lurking in fictional shadows
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