Quicksand Fans

...it has a name!

Ammophobia or ammosophobia (from Greek ammos, "sand") is the fear of walking on sand. Sufferers would walk on the beach, desert floor, and even stepping on the sand in the beachbox. The most common cause of ammophobia is getting sank in the quicksand or seeing on the news that someone was sunk and suffocated by quicksand. The less common cause could be getting stabbed by sand particles when walking on it barefooted, or seeing the footprint imprinted on it gave them dread.

Now you know.

PM2K wrote:...it has a name!

Ammophobia or ammosophobia (from Greek ammos, "sand") is the fear of walking on sand. Sufferers would walk on the beach, desert floor, and even stepping on the sand in the beachbox. The most common cause of ammophobia is getting sank in the quicksand or seeing on the news that someone was sunk and suffocated by quicksand. The less common cause could be getting stabbed by sand particles when walking on it barefooted, or seeing the footprint imprinted on it gave them dread.

Now you know.

Its pretty clear that phobias are, or can be, learned, just as most of them can be unlearned. However, it would be my opinion (and I am not a psychologist) that some other factors are, at least usually, involved.

Yes but we have Ammosophilia -so where does that come from ?

joedeep130535 wrote:Yes but we have Ammosophilia -so where does that come from ?

So far as I can tell the only reference on the Internet to ammosophobia is the web page quotedat the start of this thread, and there is no reference at all to Ammosophilia.

That’s how my interest began. I was terrified of it when I was six years old. The horror. I couldn’t watch someone sinking on a TV show withought running out of the room terrified. But then I fell in love with Pearl White.
...the horror.