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Equinophobia

 
Phobia: equinophobia

or hippophobia

Fear of horses.

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Equinophobia or hippophobia is a psychological fear of horses, derived from the Phobos for fear and Equus for horse.

Sufferers of Equinophobia usually experience an anxiety of approaching horses.

Equinophobics usually begin such feelings at a young age, either:

  • Falling off a horse while riding
  • Being bitten by a horse at a young age
  • Meeting a horse for the first time that turns out to be aggressive[citation needed]

An example of the phobia can be found in Freud's psychoanalytic study of Little Hans.

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