Maskophobia
Model: Maja Djuric
Varazdin, Croatia
Makeup & Styling by Me
09/05/2010
Maskophobia is the fear of masks, specifically, usually horror masks but sometimes any, and can involve seeing them on others or wearing one.
I personally believe these terms potentially extend to any moving or still lifelike figures, not just humanoid, such as large realistic toy dogs, rubber snakes and even figures that are vaguely human-like but which are obviously not human-like, such as animatronic bears or rats (like some restaurants have) or other animal or creature with exaggerated and obviously non realistic features. I also believe there is at least a correlation between these and fear of mascots (like the San Diego Chicken) and mostly concealing costumes which are out of the ordinary and non-human looking, and whose intentions, emotions and body language are unreadable, even though there is a human in them, such as Darth Vader, etc., which I believe then also includes and leads back to clowns and mimes, which again, are unpredictable because we can’t “read” them. It is also hypothesized to be related to maskophobia,
Source: http://drama.zanysite.com/?x=entry:entry100131-114323
