Fear of mice Fear of mice Fear of mice and rats is one of the most common specific phobias. It is sometimes referred to as musophobia (from Greek "μῦς" "mouse") or murophobia (a coinage from the taxonomic adjective "murine" for the family Muridae that encompasses mice and rats), or as suriphobia, from French "souris", "mouse". The phobia, as an unreasonable and disproportionate fear, is distinct from reasonable concern about rats and mice contaminating food supplies, which may potentially be universal to all times, places, and cultures where stored grain attracts rodents, which then consume or contaminate the food supply. In many cases a
Fear Is the Key of his choosing, walks off alone. A film appeared in 1972 directed by Michael Tuchner. The protagonist, Talbot, was played by Barry Newman, and the millionaire's daughter Sarah Ruthven by Suzy Kendall. The movie features a soundtrack by Roy Budd. , by Crosby, Stills and Nash, contains the lyric "Fear is the lock, and laughter the key to your heart." Fear Is the Key Fear Is the Key is a 1961 first-person narrative thriller novel by Scottish author Alistair MacLean. In the prologue, set in May 1958, John Talbot, owner of Trans Carib Air Charter Co is at an airfield