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Choose one of the following categories: birds, cats and dogs, creepy crawlies, general,or view the best beliefs in this section as voted by visitors. Here are the most recently added beliefs:
When I was little I thought seagulls were called seagles. Like a portmanteau of 'sea' and 'eagle'.
top belief!
I used to believe amoebas wait 5 seconds before they start eating something you dropped on the floor.
I'm not sure if amoebas are classified as animals, but I'm putting this in the animals section anyway.
I thought cows can produce milk without having a baby first. Ironically, I was raised in a vegan family but they never explained it to me.
I used to believe that female roosters existed.
I used to believe that all cows could have udders regardless of sex.
I used to believe female bulls existed. I thought the difference between cows and bulls was cows were bicolor while bulls were solid-color and more muscular with longer horns.
When I was little I thought seagulls were called seagles. Like a portmanteau of 'sea' and 'eagle'.
top belief!
As a child, I believed that if you were to kill a snake, all the other snakes in the area would gang up on you and bite you to death. To escape this fate, you'd have to move at least 100 miles away. 99.9 miles would not be enough.
I used to think dogs had hooves, because they make hoofbeat-like sounds when they walk.
This isn’t really my own belief per se, but something I recall from my childhood that was believed to be useful. When I was little, I noticed my mum had taken an empty carbonated drink bottle (unlabelled), filled it with at least 3/4 water & laid it down sideways on the soil of the flowerbed in our garden. I asked why she did that & she told me it was supposed to scare cats away, so they wouldn’t pee/poop in our garden (or at least that part of the garden). Apparently they’d see their reflection in the water & get spooked away? I don’t know, it sounded pretty dumb to me, but I never actually saw a cat react to it, so I still don’t know if it worked or not, LOL. My mum certainly believed in it, though & I think one of my aunts tried the same trick, so it must’ve been a thing back then (this would’ve been in the 1990’s). Sounds kinda silly, doesn’t it? 🤣
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