Serenephobia

Serenephobia (from Latin serene, "mermaid") is the fear of s.

A person may develop this phobia after hearing frightening stories about mermaids or alleged reports of mermaids in real life.

A serenephobic person may avoid entering bodies of water for fear of mermaids pulling them underwater and drowning them, though they may be willing to enter a small body of clear and shallow water such as a swimming pool.

This phobia can be treated by reassuring the serenophobe that there are few to no documented cases of people getting injured from mermaids and that mermaids are not proven to exist. However, this method may not always work, as irrational phobias are not dependent on reason.