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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[wolfy-codex.livejournal.com]

The disembodied hands that grew out of walls, cupboards and the bottom of beds reaching out to grab me and pull me into whatever terrible doom. Those and sinky swamps and quicksands made sleeping one of my less favoured activties as a small cub.

[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...