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Alfred Hitchcock Had a Phobia of Eggs

It’s true, the Master of Suspense himself was terrified of the chicken eggs you eat for breakfast every morning. The technical word for a fear of eggs is “ovophobia.” Hitchcock remarked to an interviewer in 1963:

“I’m frightened of eggs, worse than frightened; they revolt me. That white round thing without any holes, and when you break it, inside there’s that yellow thing, round, without any holes … Blood is jolly, red. But egg yolk is yellow, revolting. I’ve never tasted it.”