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
Fear Is the Key (film) Fear Is the Key (film) Fear Is the Key is a 1972 film directed by Michael Tuchner and based on the 1961 novel of the same name by Alistair MacLean. The protagonist, Talbot, was played by Barry Newman, and the millionaire's daughter Sarah Ruthven by Suzy Kendall. The film features a soundtrack by Roy Budd plus an early film appearance by Ben Kingsley. John Talbot is talking on radio to a girl and another man who are flying a plane. He hears them being machine gunned to death by another plane. Some time later, Talbot appears in a small town