when i was about 6 my big brother (11) told me that if i went outside the killer bees would get me and eat me up.
of course i beleived him and ran in side at once then didnt come out for about 5 days lol
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I thought that all cats were the females, and that the dogs were the males.
When I was young I was told by my mom that if you blew up a horses nose, it would make friends with it.
When I was a teenager, I tried it. The horse sneezed all over me. I was NOT impressed.
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I thought unicorns existed until I was six, I just never saw one yet in a zoo
when I was little I thought ravens watched over me, because they were usually bad luck signs and people also didn't like me.
My friend from brought her dog when she moved from Israel. It knows commands in Hebrew, so when we were in park, she told it to fetch, sit, and roll over and little boy whispered, "look, that lady speaks doggie!"
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When I was younger, my mom told me if I rubbed the cat's fur the wrong way it wouldn't be able to see in the dark because of static electricity.
When i was young, I spent a lot of time around horses and ponies. My 4 year old logic naturally assumed that the ponies, being a lot smaller, would one day grow up to be great big horses,no matter how old the pony was. And yes, I would tell them so.
After all, small children grow up to become big adults..so why not!? I'm more worried that I would attempt meaningful conversation with my four legged friends.
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a friend of mine and I had an argument when we were in the sixth grade because she refused to believe that sharks really existed. she thought they were fistional, like mermaids.
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I thought the Vietnamese must really care about their animals as on TV they mentioned Vietnam Vets so often and with such respect.
ok not me but I caught my 5 year old nephew talking to 2 frogs he'd spotted in the garden the other day. He was babbling away and I asked him what he was doing, he introduced me to fred and bob (who funnily enough were mating at the time!). I asked him if he wanted a sandwich and he replied yes and bob wants a bag of crisps and fred wants a bar of chocolate! I thought it was sweet I didn't even mind him scamming extra food off me!
When I was little, I loved to play outside. Especially when it was almost winter and all the geese were flying south. You know how they always flew in those V's, and make those sounds? Well, for some odd reason, I used to think that they were talking to me, and that they were giving me messages through some sort of sign language. I don't know how it started, or why I thought that, but I just used to get all excited when i'd see/hear the geese.. i'd think, "I wonder what they're going to tell me today!"
my grandma's dog was a golden retreiver and it would hump our legs when we were little and we thouhgt he was trying to hug us but our mom told us he was trying to climb up us to kiss us.
i always belived that my dogs were actually people inside a dog costume... so i wouldnt do anything bad around them... i wouldnt even change or go to the bathroom around them!!!
When I was small we lived in the country just outside Didcot. Every day the factory nearby would sound a horn to signal the end of the days work. I was outside playing in the mud when the siren went of and I was convinced it was Elephants making the noise, and they were coming to get me. I was so scared so i tried to run back to the house but it was muddy so my boots got stuck and I couldnt go fast enough. I spent the rest of the day traumatised wondering when the elephants would arrive.
I was at my best friends house and her male dog sat in front of us and his wiener came out and I freeked out and was like, what was that??!! So we started poking at it with sticks. We thought her dogs winky waw a giant worm monster living in his stomach.
When i was about 5 i was out back at night and saw all these moths flying around my back door light.They kept flying near me and i kept getting nervous.Well,my dad told me that if i kept bothering them that they would eat my clothes.To this day my mom teases me about it,and yet i still somewhat believe it...
I used to believe that a piece of flint was a fossilised penguin carcass! The outer, white- coloured part was the feathers and the dark, inner bit was the blood and internal organs. I don't know what made me think that, but I must have been really stupid/gullable (or both...).
When my family would go camping, early in the mornings I would often be woken by the sound of crows. They sounded like they were in much pain. So, when I asked my older brother about it, he told me that an evil old man used to put the crows in fishnets and bury them. I believed his story and for the next 2 weeks of camping, I spent all my time digging holes to try and find the crows!
When I was about 3, my family used to go camping every year by a lake. Now, since I was in the water from straight after breakfast until dinner time, my skin would get really dry and so my mum would have to put aloe vera gel all over my body. I hated having it put on and used to scream and kick. The tantrum problem was solved when my mum said that if I didn't have the aloe vera gel on, the bears would come and eat me... I believed her... Now, considering we live in Australia and the closest thing we'll get to a wild bear is a koala, i now think it to be really stupid!