An unattended shade was thought by some cultures to be similar to that of a ghost. The name for the fear of shadows is "sciophobia" or "sciaphobia".In heraldry, when a charge is supposedly shown "in shadow" (the appearance is of the charge merely being outlined in a neutral tint rather than being of one or more tinctures different from the field on which it is placed), it is technnically described as "umbrated". Supposedly, only a limited number of specific charges can be so depicted.
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