| rdfs:comment | - A baby rabbit, even one that has never encountered a bird before, will still cower at the sight of a hawk's shadow. Some fears are universal. The dark, heights, blood, enclosed spaces, snakes, spiders, psychopaths, pain, death, monsters, humiliation, loneliness; these fears have been with us always. They are the dangers our early ancestors faced, and their shadows still haunt our nightmares. Most people are a little nervous about such things - not many people could walk on a glass bridge over the Grand Canyon without any railings, and not feel a little anxious - and full-blown phobias are easily enough induced.
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| abstract | - A baby rabbit, even one that has never encountered a bird before, will still cower at the sight of a hawk's shadow. Some fears are universal. The dark, heights, blood, enclosed spaces, snakes, spiders, psychopaths, pain, death, monsters, humiliation, loneliness; these fears have been with us always. They are the dangers our early ancestors faced, and their shadows still haunt our nightmares. Most people are a little nervous about such things - not many people could walk on a glass bridge over the Grand Canyon without any railings, and not feel a little anxious - and full-blown phobias are easily enough induced. Naturally, writers of Horror fiction like to exploit these. See also: Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?, Fangs Are Evil, Eye Scream, And I Must Scream, Enclosed Space (which isn't necessarily this trope), Dark Is Evil, and a fair number of Horror Tropes. And of course, Fetish Fuel, for those of you who are Nightmare Fetishists. Examples of Primal Fear include:
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