Actually, I can get the plushies-being-hurt fear, but I do have a couple of utterly illogical ones myself (I'm inherently superstitious).
1. Man-made heights. Planes don't scare me, nor do cliffs or mountains. But put me more than 2 stories up where I can see the way down on anything man-made (like stairs) and something in the back of my brain starts screaming bloody murder and I start gripping anything I can for support.
2. Mushroom circles. I will have an absolute fit if anyone tries to make me cross one. I guess this is why?
3. Also, I hate being in dark rooms with uncovered mirrors. I cannot handle it. If the light is on, I'm fine, but otherwise I have this rabid fear of a woman in the mirror throwing axes and the like at you from with the mirror if you can't get the light on before she gets you. That was the variation of invoking "Bloody Mary" that I grew up with. Even though I've never said it three times in a dark room with a mirror, the fear remains.
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1. Man-made heights. Planes don't scare me, nor do cliffs or mountains. But put me more than 2 stories up where I can see the way down on anything man-made (like stairs) and something in the back of my brain starts screaming bloody murder and I start gripping anything I can for support.
2. Mushroom circles. I will have an absolute fit if anyone tries to make me cross one. I guess this is why?
3. Also, I hate being in dark rooms with uncovered mirrors. I cannot handle it. If the light is on, I'm fine, but otherwise I have this rabid fear of a woman in the mirror throwing axes and the like at you from with the mirror if you can't get the light on before she gets you. That was the variation of invoking "Bloody Mary" that I grew up with. Even though I've never said it three times in a dark room with a mirror, the fear remains.