In fact, click on the essay title and you will go to a surprisingly long list of things that inspire irrational and paralyzing fear in someone . And a lot of those things are so commonplace that in order for someone to have developed a phobia about them, the phobic must have had some extensive enabling. Then there are others that are so esoteric as to be almost unbelieveable. I am unable to find any reference to the beast except in sites devoted to phobias. Francophobia, the fear of anything French, is interesting.
Some phobias seem just plain stupid.
Some people don't like to think, but if you suffer from phronemophobia you find thinking absolutely terrifying. And on that note, I believe I will phinish this before I phind a phobia of which I could become phond.