animals

i believed that dogs where boys and cats where girls.

When I was a child I used to believe that roosters laid jelly beans. I would spend several weeks every summer with my uncle on the farm. Every morning he would go to the chicken coop before I got up and put jelly beans in the roosters nest. It was my job to collect the rooster eggs for the the Jelly Bean Factory. He would collect them in a jar until it was time for me to go home and then he would pay me my commission for the beans, usually 25 cents. A lot of money in the 50’s. I believed that roosters laid jellybeans until I was 11 or 12.

An aunt of mine told me that a dog can tell if you're a good person or not. I believed this until I met a dog that didn't like me and then noticed that other dogs still did.

I had a dream about some geese coming into my bedroom and hissing etc at me. In the morning I was really scared and my mum told me that it was alrighy-dad had taken them back to the lake on his way to work! I believed her for yrears afterwards!

When I was seven, my uncle, who lived upstairs from us, brought home a puppy, which he eventually gave to my sister and me. He and my aunt said it was "part dalmatian and part travelling salesman," so for years I thought there was a breed of dog called a travelling salesman. I wondered why I never saw any reference to it anywhere. I figured it out when I was around twelve and started hearing those jokes.

I used to believe that birds subsisted on bread.

I used to believe that crickets were the sound that night made. Needless to say I was very upset when I heard a cricket during the day and then actually saw one. Ugh.

My Dad used to tell me that earwigs (the insect)would climb into your ear to have their babies then eat holes in your brain.....I still believe that and I am 32 years old...this isnt true is it?

My grandparents, who lived in a beautiful country house, had me catching fireflies when I was just a brat. I truly believed that during the night, while put in a glass turned upside down, they would transform into a coin, as every morning I woke up to see a coin under that very glass that restrained the firefly.

When I was young I used to believe that all cats with any orange coloring on their bodies were female

As a small child, I was told that if you dropped leaves on a cat it would scratch your eyes out. This began a long fear of cats which would make me cross the road to avoid them.

When I was a kid I used to think that lesser spotted birds were one that were few in number. I thought if not many bird watchers saw a particular type of bird it was referred to as lesser spotted!

I only found out last year that a pony is not a baby horse.

I was, and still am, deathly afraid of spiders. I wouldn't kill them because I was afraid that they may not have died and they would get their spider buddies and come after me in the middle of the night. I still refuse to kill a spider.

When I was little I thought that if I slept in the bed with my male cat, Rusty, I would get pregnant, and that I would have kittens. I thought my mom would be really mad at me.

My mom would watch a lot of soaps and they always said so-and-so was "sleeping" with so-and-so, and got pregnant. Everybody seemed really mad about that. So, I thought sleeping in the bed with my cat would make me prego... and I wanted to have more kitties!

For years I used to believe that cat's sucked the breath out of baby's mouths. I believe that's not an uncommon myth.