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strange phobias

You can’t make this stuff up.

You can’t make this stuff up.

By Meg Rosoff on 15 June 2010

So, you’re just coming to terms with fear of buttons, when another potential phobia rears its terrifying head. Anatidaephobia.  The fear of being watched by a duck. My lovely fan, Eliza Wimperis, has alerted me to this word/concept/life-threatening mental illness, and I can’t quite get it out of my head.  Why a duck? as the [...]

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