animals

I used to believe that earwigs were called that because they really liked to live in ears. If I laid in the grass for too long I was worried that an earwig would crawl into my ear and make a home there, then pinch my brain with its little pincers. To this day, earwigs give me the creeps.

Not my belief excactly, but we have a factory right outside town that makes mattresses, and they have a green kangaroo for a logo.
As we were growing up, my friend was convinced that's where they made kangaroos.

A friend of mine said when she was little her grandpa told her that fish eyes made the best bait while fishing but told her to make sure that she could only take one eyeball from each fish so that they could use the other eye to see up in heaven. To this day she still only uses one eye out of every fish as bait

I had always wanted to have a koala as a pet. At around age 6-7 I thought I was ready to have one. My parents told me that they only ate eucalyptus leaves and it was not possible to have on as a pet. Well, my bedroom was over the dining room which was over the basement. I thought that we could grow a tree starting in the basement, up through the dining room and into my room. That way, the koala would be able to live in the tree and eat his or her special leaves! Needless to say, my Mom was less than thrilled with the idea of having a tree growing through her dining room! I also thought that I could have a dolphin living in my bathtub! My parents were not so happy with my pet choices as we already had 2 cats and a dog!

I used to believe that all cats were female and all dogs were male, and when they mated, the male babies were dogs, and the female babies were cats.

I used to believe that to catch a rabbit I just had to pour salt on his tail. I never traveled to the country without a handful of salt in my pocket just in case.

I was 5 or 6 when my father told me that there were elephants that lived in the trees across the street. At first I didn't believe him, but he said they only came out at night. So we left some peanuts out for them one night. The next morning when the peanuts were gone I was convinced that there really were elephants that lived in the trees!

When i was little, we had skunks on our patio, and it began to smell in our nice basement. so i overheard mom and dad talking, and they said something about the skunks getting into the basement. so i was scared the skunks would come up and kill me when i was sleeping at night.

When I was a kid, 7 or so, the neighbor boys told me that when a dog laid upside down it would suffocate. Consequently I awoke a dog and never let it lie on its back.

When I was a kid I was really scared of spiders. I had a blanket on my bed that had pictures of rose buds all over it, and every night before I could go to sleep, I would sit up and look at each rose because I thought that a spider might be posing as a rose bud and just waiting until I went to sleep to crawl up onto my face.

When I was little, I believed that cats were girls and dogs were boys.

When i was about 6 my uncle told me that there were special hillside cows who had a pair of legs shorter than the other so they could graze on steep hills. Later i got tangled in thoughts about what would happen if they had to walk the other direction.

As a young child my grandmother told me not to pick up a praying mantis because it would spit in your eye and you would go blind. I am 38 years old and some students of mine brought in a praying mantis one day after recess and I just about lost my mind.

My grandparents lived on a huge farm in Mississippi and my "Nana" told us that dragonflies were actually called "Snake Doctors" because they brought medicine to snakes as they flew over the water in the ponds where we fished. I have of course believed this my entire life.

I believed that all dogs were boys and all cats were girls.

I used to believe and sometimes still get paranoid because I used to think that every animal was watching me and waiting for me to make a mistake. So I waited until no one was around before doing something wrong.