Pedophobia, fear of dolls and children

Matanglawin TV featured the Dizon-Ramos Museum in Negros Occidental recently.

The museum is an ancestral home that stores various collections that go as far back as the 1970s. There’s a collection of angel figurines, numbering 2,000 owned by Bella Galang.

There’s a keychain collection compiled by Maria Montinola Silos from her travels.

While touring the museum, we were struck by a few artifacts like the walking doll that was famous in the 1970s. It’s called a walking doll because it walks once held by hand and dragged like an adult walking with a little child.

The fear of dolls is called pedophobia. It is also a fear of small children.

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TRIVIA PA MORE (Various Sources): Here are some bits and pieces of trivia from a remarkably useful book, Living with Folk Wisdom as written by Dr. Abercio Valdez Rotor.

Wild food plants are also called “survival plants.”

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Talisay (Terminaliacatappa) bears nut like fruits that contain small seeds that taste like almond.

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Tibig (Ficus nota) fruits are edible, have a good flavour.

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Is-is (Ficusodorata) or is-is have rough leaves that are used as natural sandpaper for utensil and wood. Its fruits like tibig are edible.

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Balleba (Vallisnera) is an aquatic plant flowing in clear streams, ponds, and lakes, whose leaves appear like ribbon; hence it is also called ribbon grass. The leaves are gathered and served fresh with tomato, onion, and salt.

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Apulid or water chestnut. Our native apulid produces very small bulbs – only one-third the size of the Chinese or Vietnamese apulid. It grows wild in places where water is present year round. It is boiled, peeled and served.

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