i used to read 'asbestos' as a plural, and i believed that an asbesto was a kind of insect, like a beetle. whenever i read about asbestos being found in a building i imagined it was infested with these insects, and they would send in pest control to deal with it...
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When I was really little I thought if I mimicked my cat's meows well enough, that I would learn how to talk "cat".
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When I was 5, I thought cats were spawned from moss, since moss was so soft. Made sense to me.
My parents used to tell me that cows on hills had shorter legs on one side so that they could stand up straight. Cows born on the opposite side of the hill would have shorter legs on the other side of their body. I remember thinking that the cows on one side of the hill could just walk around to the other side, but then they would be facing the wrong way and you could tell they really belonged on the other side.
when i was 10, i believed that if i was stung by an insect called a dragonfly, it would automatically sew up my lips so i couldn't open my mouth. Since the dragonflies looked like long sewing needles, that's why my older brother told me, to scare me. I didn't get over it until I was 15.
after eating a plate of Calamari, My big brother told me that they were going to grow in my stomach and I cried and ran to bathroom and spent a few days attempting to look down my throat to see the growing octopi.
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I used to think that if you put dried starfish in water they would come back to life.
that concept scared me ... a lot.
I used to be scared when seeing a mother dog biting the neck of her puppies, I thought she was eating them!!!!!! My mother told me this was not the case while i was in hospital getting a tetnis shot, i had tried to rescue the puppies!!!!!!!
This isn't mine, but my friends instead. When she was little and travelling in the car with her parents in the country she spotted some cows. She got excited and pointed and said "Daddy! Lookie, cows!" and her dad replied, "No sweetie, those are chickens." And for a while she thought that cows were chicken and always called them that. XD
I used to believe that to see the following birds meant .....one bird...a sorrow
two....ajoy three a disappintment
four....a boy
five.....a letter
six......a kiss
seven....a better
eight ....a wish and so on.each number of birds had its corresponding meaning and a flock of birds could be wished on and bring news mostly apleasant surprize.HOWEVER,even though it ryhmes I am very cross with the person who taught me these silly superstiotions because I can´t get them out of my head and whenever the number3 comes up I expect disappointment.
i used to think that my puppy was a toy boat and almost drown him!
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I used to believe when dogs bark and cat meow they are talking to each other
A long time ago my brother came up to me and told me if i bit off a butterflies wing i would get a real beautiful dress i was only about 7 or 8 years old and at the this gullible age i thought about and didnt know if i should believe or not but in the end i never did i couldnt even catch a butterfly to even try.
I used to believe wasps made jam, like bees make honey. This was partly due to a book called "the giant jam sandwich" in which a town is plagued by wasps and traps them in the sandwich.
My mom would say something and I'd say "what?" and she would tell me to get the bird $hit out of my ears - I really thought birds were somehow pooping in my ears.
I always thought that a turtle's shell was hard and able to protect them from any harm's way. It was not until my last year of highschool (yes, that late) that my classmates decided to enlighten me with the truth - a turtle's shell won't protect them from being ran over by a car. My naiveness has since been shattered beyond repair.
When I was young the first time I went to the zoo and saw a rhinoceros I thought that it was a type of dinosaur, (the zoo actually had the name spelled Rhinosaurus) so all day I ran around telling people that dinosaurs weren't extinct!
When I was little I used to belive that girrafes were made to play baseball because they had long necks
I used to belive that once you were stung by a bee, you could never get stung again, kinda like getting chicken pox. I misinterpretted what my mom told me though: when you were stung by a bee, THAT bee can't sting you again. In fact, the first time I did get stung I was happy because I believed it could never happen again
When I was young there was a mouse in our house. My mum and my brother had seen it and I asked what colour it was. They said it was green with purple spots and I believed them and I was amazed.