Citations:pteronophobia

Noun: "the fear of feathers"

 * 1935, Grace Adams, Don't Be Afraid, Covici - Friede (1935), page 87:
 * Some of the more common phobias besides those that have already been discussed are pteronophobia (the fear of feathers), arachnophobia (the fear of spiders), thalassophobia (the fear of the sea), rypophobia (the fear of dirt)
 * 1983, Health & Medical Horizons 1983, Macmillan Educational (1983), ISBN 9780029424506, page 142:
 * As for the second type of phobia — fear of a harmless thing — few of us are afraid of feathers, of the color purple, or of rain. But these things trigger panic in people who have pteronophobia, porphyrophobia, or hyetophobia, respectively.
 * 1986, Brent Filson, There's a Monster in Your Closet!: Understanding Phobias, Julius Messner (1986), ISBN 9780671554965, page 55:
 * Then there are the phobes whose fear of birds is combined with a fear of feathers, pteronophobia.
 * One case of bird-and-feathers phobia involved a woman in her thirties who was too frightened to go outside.
 * 1989, Josie Hadley & Carol Staudacher, Hypnosis for Change, New Harbinger Publications (1989), ISBN 9780934986748, page 98:
 * It is easy, for example, for a person to live with pteronophobia, aulophobia, or batrachophobia. One simply stays away from feathers, flutes, and frogs!
 * 2005, Anna Dale, Dawn Undercover, Bloomsbury (2006), ISBN 9781599900025, page 291:
 * 'Um ... pteronophobia is the fear of being tickled with feathers, I think . . . '