Clown

excessive fear of clowns. While I don’t think there are a lot of people who suffer from clown phobia, there are many people who just don’t like them. Clowns have been around for ages and appear in most cultures in varying forms. From court jesters and mimes to rodeo and circus clowns their primary purpose was to make people laugh. To provide comic relief. Somewhere along the line clowns became dark. Facebook even has an “I Hate Clowns” page with some 400,000 followers! Is it because clowns always possessed

Memoirs of a Caustic Clown: My Mother was a Lovely Dancer He still hates that putrid green shag carpet, he remembers playing with his plastic army men, pretending they were real soldiers walking through the weeds of Nam. His Father only talked about his time in Vietnam, when distanced from the clutches of sobriety, unfortunately for the boy that was nearly everyday. He hated when people talked about their childhoods, always considering it “the happiest time of their life," or better yet reminiscing

the fear of clowns is a real phobia for both children and adults alike. The phobia could be explained by what Sigmund Freud explained in a 1919 publication “The Uncanny” In this work Sigmund Freud explains that we can be frightened by something that is familiar and yet unfamiliar at the same time. For children, most can recognize the clown as a real person but cannot recognize the exaggerate make up and clothing as being real this confusion leads to fear. For adults, the fear of clowns can be a

Clowns and dolls are always part of a child's childhood. Whether it is a little girl´s doll that she always walks around with, or a clown at a birthday party. As people get older they tend to get more afraid because of fake movies. Dolls are feared for the same reason but then people come to their senses and realize they aren´t real. People also think all clowns are nice, but that is just a myth. There was once a clown named Bubbles

I have a major fear of clowns. It started with a terrible occurrence in my youth. Everytime I see one I have this horrible feeling that makes me sick. Of my experiences, I had one encounter that made my fear somewhat decrease. Most of my fear from them is what I didn't know or see. But I'm still not afraid of the circus. Clowns always frightened me as a child, but one Halloween made it even worse. I was on a haunted house tour with my family when I accidentally was diverted. Not knowing I was

terrified of clowns. I would avoid them at all cost from pretending to be sick to misbehaving and getting grounded just so I will have an excuse as to why I did not attend birthday parties or any event that I presumed would involve the attendance of a clown. I never told anyone of said fear for the reason that I would be treated differently and looked upon as weak. I always kept it to myself hoping that one day it would magically disappear but it never did. As the years passed, my phobia of clowns prodigiously

Long, long ago there was this clown called Pennywise(the Dancing Clown), That lived in south carolina. Clowns need help or need money to eat or have a place to stay. Sometimes doing something is not always wrong. Pennywise thought of wearing mask during the shows they were doing at a tent they called the circuit. First of all, Long, long ago there was a clown who’s name was called Pennywise back then some clowns did not have any money including Pennywise. So they thought of a good idea of making

Pennywise The Clown As a child, I vividly remembering watching the movie, “It”. I remember this insignificant event clearly for one reason. It kept me up for days because I was so terrified by the film. “It” was originally a horror novel written by Steven King but was also released into a movie. Every great horror movie has a villain or monster and the monster in “It” goes by the name pennywise the clown. Pennywise the Clown induces fear in me and millions of others because his traits closely resemble

A recent statement by the World Clown Association puts this issue into perspective, a portion of which is quoted: Please understand, just because someone wears a rubber Halloween mask, that does not make one a clown! The horror movie character, “Jason,” wears a hockey goalie mask. But, people would be mistaken if they actually thought he was a hockey player! We disavow any relationship with these “horror characters. The World Clown Association shares laugh and "comic relief" everywhere for the positive

Riding a fear of clowns through clowning Clowns have been present in almost every culture for over X years; often being used to say what is needed to be said or to tear down misunderstood ideas. The nature of clown is to act as a social commentary while still remaining grounded in what makes humans human. It is because of their nature in connecting to their emotions and saying what is socially unacceptable that coulrophobia or the fear of clowns has become a growing and relatively new problem. Mostly