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Also known as ophiophobia

thumb|alt=A man, tied to a cliff, cowers at a snake menacing at him from inches away.|The Punishment of Loki by J. Doyle Penrose Ophidiophobia () or ophiophobia () is fear of snakes. It is sometimes called by the more general term herpetophobia, fear of reptiles. The word comes from the , and .

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Instance of
phobia
Subclass of
herpetophobia
Main subject
snake
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thumb|alt=A man, tied to a cliff, cowers at a snake menacing at him from inches away.|The Punishment of Loki by J. Doyle Penrose Ophidiophobia () or ophiophobia () is fear of snakes. It is sometimes called by the more general term herpetophobia, fear of reptiles. The word comes from the , and .

==Research==

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “ophidiophobia” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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