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I remember believing as a child that horses and cows were the same species;
the horse was the male, and the cow was the female.
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My grandfather told me if you put salt on a goose'es tail feathers, you could catch it. I pestered my father until we went to a lake in Orlando and tried it out. I was 6 years old and totally believed my grandfather. My father finally managed to catch a mud duck, where else, but in the mud! I wonder what my father said to my grandfather about that!
I used to believe that dragon flies had little sewing needles in their mouths, so if you said something bad, the dragon fly would sew your mouth shut!! I was really scared of them. After all, that's why they were called dragon flies.
I would come home every day in the spring after school and catch japanese beetles and go around the yard, feeding them to the spiders! After awhile, they got used to me and would come prancing out in the middle of the webs as soon as I walked up to them, so I felt sure they recognized me and knew they were about to receive a meal! I felt I had established a meaningful relationship with the spiders in my yard!
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I used to believe that spiders were mutated rats that were shrunk!
Cats go miaow, dogs go woof, rabbits go fuh, fuh, fuh! This is said with the front teeth over the bottom lip. I believed this to be true until I was 13. My little brother used to have to go to speech therepy, and to get him to say his f's, rabbit impressions were used. duh!!!!!
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I used to believe that cats were girls and dogs were boys, I felt stupid when I realized it wasn't true. Now I feel stupid thinking it isn't true.
My brother and I used to fight over the chicken legs whenever my mom would cook it, so she would always buy an extra package of legs when she bought a whole chicken. She and my brother had me convinced that all this had come from a six-legged racing chicken.
When I was little, the grocery store we shopped at had a large tree out in front, always covered with funny looking animals on the limbs. I don't know WHY, but for some reason, my Dad thought it was funny to tell me those were called "golly-whoppers". I believed him, until a friend of mine from grade school went with us one day to the store (MUCH LATER)...and I showed her the golly-whoppers! My Dad was in the car and had a great laugh. He had forgotten to tell me the truth...in fact, they were chickens.
my cousin told me that when roosters went cock a doodle he was mating another hen so he was having an orgasm. so when we went to stay in cornwall for a holiday i was in hysterics whenever i heard the noise
For some reason, cows all seem to face the same way when standing in a field (honest - you look!). I used to believe that this was because they all pointed to magnetic north. Odd child...
When I was young I thought birds were going to "bird school" when they sat in groups on the telephone lines. On Sundays, they were in "bird church." I still am reminded of that when I see them today, and I'm a senior citizen.
when i was little, my parents used to take me to the park and tell me that there were very pretty baby pink and yellow birds there and that if i ran after them really quickly, i could bring them home with me.
i spent countless times running from tree to tree trying to 'catch' these birds. it was only when i got older that i realized it was my parents' way of getting me to exercise cos i was a really lazy kid. come to think abt it, i never actually seen these colored birds before either.
I used to think that tortoiseshell and calico cats were different types of cat(they aren't really except that calicos have white patches and tortoiseshells don't.) Tortoiseshells were live cats and calico cats were made of calico - that's a kind of cloth.
My dad, who has since passed away, believed up until his 30s that a donkey was just a horse with long ears.
He also believed (because my uncle told him this) that there was a special breed of "hillside cows" with one set of legs (on either the left or right side) shorter than the other, so that they could stand straight on hills.
But if you put them on level ground, they could only go around at a tilt, and in circles.
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I used to believe that boneless chicken were really raised. I imagined that this kind couldn't fly as they do not have bones.
i used to believe that all dogs were boys and all cats were girls!
I used to believe that if an animal bit you seven time you would catch rabies from it.
one day at school, we found a huge spider and stabbed it with a stick, making a green and white fluid come out. as such, i believed for quite a while that all spiders were filled with toothpaste
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a friend once believed that spiders screamed with pain like humans did. this came from throwing a large (tarantula-like) spider on a fire and the whistling sound that came from air blowing through its burnt body.