Coming across things like this, and it is not the first time I have found a doll’s head on this beach, in the middle of nowhere, can sometimes be rather spooky!
I have never thought of dolls or doll body parts per se as creepy …or heard of any people who thought so… but I believe it could be true. As to whether the concept of creepiness associated with dolls is a gender-related phenomenon, I don’t know that either. However, I do know that people can have strange ideas about dolls, and for them the dolls may be symbolic items. Over on Ancient Shore, Graham Young (Curator of Geology and Paleontology at Manitoba Museum in Winnipeg) talks about the strange things he finds while doing fieldwork in remote locations:
“And then, of course, there was the time we found an “installation” of headless doll bodies, clothing, and red-spray painted rocks, artistically arranged on a remote section of seashore”.
Jessica, I’m amused by the Wiki entry for ‘Fear of Dolls’. Apparently I must have Pediphobia. See graph illustrating ‘Uncanny Valley’. I may need hypnotherapy. For other things, maybe, but I’ll give this one a miss. Until I meet a Graham Young scenario, anyway. BTW if you saw my post on Chesil Beach, I’d welcome any comment on the shingle geology – maybe email rollingharbour.delphi@gmail.com if you have the time or energy… RH
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Looks like something from a horror movie! 🙂
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Coming across things like this, and it is not the first time I have found a doll’s head on this beach, in the middle of nowhere, can sometimes be rather spooky!
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‘Like’ in one sense. Dislike in most others… Aren’t dolls often very creepy? And doll body parts even more so? That’s not just a man thing, is it? RH
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I have never thought of dolls or doll body parts per se as creepy …or heard of any people who thought so… but I believe it could be true. As to whether the concept of creepiness associated with dolls is a gender-related phenomenon, I don’t know that either. However, I do know that people can have strange ideas about dolls, and for them the dolls may be symbolic items. Over on Ancient Shore, Graham Young (Curator of Geology and Paleontology at Manitoba Museum in Winnipeg) talks about the strange things he finds while doing fieldwork in remote locations:
“And then, of course, there was the time we found an “installation” of headless doll bodies, clothing, and red-spray painted rocks, artistically arranged on a remote section of seashore”.
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How very Halloween.
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You’re right. I hadn’t thought of that.
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Jessica, I’m amused by the Wiki entry for ‘Fear of Dolls’. Apparently I must have Pediphobia. See graph illustrating ‘Uncanny Valley’. I may need hypnotherapy. For other things, maybe, but I’ll give this one a miss. Until I meet a Graham Young scenario, anyway. BTW if you saw my post on Chesil Beach, I’d welcome any comment on the shingle geology – maybe email rollingharbour.delphi@gmail.com if you have the time or energy… RH
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No, I don’t think you need hypnotherapy just yet. As they say, “don’t sweat the small stuff”.
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