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Meaning of catafefobia by furoya




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It is the irrational (or not so much) fear of being buried alive. Although today it is practically impossible for it to happen, in other times a coma or a catalepsy was confused with a death, and living people have been buried, which originated a fear in some that by means of an artifice or pact they ensured (in life) that they buried them dead or that they rescued them if they were not. It is a word with Greek etymology formed by 954; 945; 964; 945; ( katá "from top to bottom" ) by the action of burial 964; 945; 966; 959; 962; (Taphos "tomb") 966; 959; 946; 959; 962; ( fovos "fear" ) .

  

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