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Chris -- 2018-04-11
If you find cats alluring but sinister, then this makes sense. 350 ghits vs. 300k for the original:
Napoleon suffered throughout his life from allurophobia, fear of cats.
cgi.stanford.edu/group/wais/cgi-bin/?p=939
Allurophobia, or an uncontrollable fear of cats, making the person scream, run, or faint at the very presence of a cat, gripped great military conquerors
www.thehindubusinessline.com/.../2007112850730800.htm
They suffer from a condition called allurophobia, the belief that all cats are obnoxious, useless, lazy, allergy-producing monsters.
www.nytimes.com/.../out-of-order-in-sea … dging.html –
“Anthropophobia is the fear of people and antherphobia is the fear of flowers and allurophobia is the fear of cats .”
correlator.sandbox.yahoo.net/index.php/people/Fears
Then, he shows us how he cured a woman of allurophobia (cats).
crackedreviews.blogspot.com/.../cracked-158-galangasleeves-if-you-know.html -
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Actually, the NYTimes example you post makes it sound like the author is associating with allergies rather than any allure of cats.
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