Fear of mice avoid a mouse, showing there may be some basis for this belief. It is not known why elephants should react in this way, though there are several theories. Regardless, elephantine murophobia remains the basis of various jokes and metaphors. The classical board game Dou Shou Qi has the Rat kill an Elephant: as multiple editions of the rule book mentions that the Rat would crawl into the Elephant's ears to gnaw into its brain: but this is considered to be a folk tale. Gertrude of Nivelles is the patron saint of murophobia, and is also invoked against rats and mice
The Fifth Horseman Is Fear The Fifth Horseman Is Fear The Fifth Horseman Is Fear () is a 1965 Czechoslovak New Wave film about the Holocaust that was directed by Zbyněk Brynych. Instead of depicting gas chambers and concentration camps, the film examines the subtler but equally debilitating mental effects of oppression. Restricted by government censorship, Brynych's uses national socialism as a metaphor to speak out against Soviet socialism, highlighting the evils of both oppressive regimes. When it was released in America in 1968, the film was highly praised by critics. "Time" magazine said it was a "superlatively photographed film," and Roger Ebert wrote, "A