Coulrophobia*…
From Unreality, “The Twenty Most Terrifying Pictures of Ronald MacDonald Ever.” E.g.,
* Coulrophobia- Fear of Clowns
As we ask for fries with that, we might recall that it was on this date in 1692 that the “Witch Hunt” began in Salem Village, in the Massachusetts Bay Colony (with the indictment of Sarah Goode, Sarah Osborne, and Tituba, an Indian slave from Barbados, for the illegal practice of witchcraft).
Woodcut from the Salem witch trials (source: Harpers)