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Psychological Phenomena

Fear of Frogs

Clinical and Motivational Phenomena

Fear of frogs and toads is both a specific phobia, known as frog phobia or ranidaphobia, from Ranidae, the most widespread family of frogs, and a superstition common to the folkways of many cultures; psychiatric specialty literature generally uses the plain term fear of frogs rather than a specialized one, though the term batrachophobia, fear of amphibians, was recorded in a 1953 psychiatric dictionary.

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Emotional Phenomenon 1
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1. Wikipedia: Fear of frogs
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fear_of_frogs
Quote, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fear_of_frogs
a specific phobia, known simply as frog phobia or ranidaphobia
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