Writer's Block: Fearsome

[bethnoir]

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The evil Punch and Judy who would try to take me to the witch behind the fireplace if I walked past them in the dark (I slept downstairs in our cottage and had to go through a lot of rooms to get to any other people).

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[aba-hachi.livejournal.com]

Mirrors: mostly because of the fear of seeing something in there that wasn't outside to be reflected (after-effects of reading An Enemy at Greene Knowe at an impressionable age, I think), general sense that they are disturbing and unhealthy, and dislike of own reflection. Also not keen on doors and telephones. This all remains the case...

[bethnoir.livejournal.com]

I think we all remain slightly dubious of the things that scared us as children. I haven't been terribly keen on mirrors since I became a mother, but I think that's more to do with how I look than whatever else might appear in them. Mind you, Candyman scared me when I watched that at an impressionable age too and I recall mirrors being part of that.