Brontophobia

Brontophobia - fear of thunder

**What it is:** idiosyncratic fear associated with the anger or wrath of God. A type of phobophobia.

If you also suffer from fear associated with thunder and lightning, that is, you are interested, or rather, frightened by these natural phenomena, then you probably still know what brontophobia is. We hasten to please you - this is not a feathered dragon that eats horses, and not even a bird-like monster from Greek mythology, but a fear of loud sounds - thunder in the sense. Go ahead.

The word “thunder” itself is etymologically related to the word “loudness,” and anyone who is even slightly familiar with the Semitic language could have “dragged” this frightening beech into phobia. The Arabic “grimbur,” for example, means “thunderous,” and the Hebrew “shouts loudly” is “tarbuda.” The Syriac "karrumar" literally means the same thing. Among the Slavs, this word with overseas connotations evoked more good-natured associations, due to which in the east of Europe the ancient skalds managed to attach the word “pagan” to it. And it is hardly possible to blame them for this. It would be much more logical to say how I envy these ancestors of the Slavs - they might not know what modern Russians know, living in an era of noise and din for 25 hours a day. That is, we now know modern ones. Therefore, it is perhaps not surprising that the origin of such a term as brontophobia (in other words, auranophobia) changes very slightly and each time it sounds as if the wording was invented today.

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