animals

When i was younger, i used to believe haggis was a real creature. i was told by my step-grandad, that haggis had one leg bigger than the other so that they could run along hills faster. They were red and hairy... it took me until i was twelve to find out... being a veggie didn't help! Whoops!

My sister told me earwigs crawled into your ears and ate your brain.To this day I still get nervous when I feel a tickle in my ear canal.

I used to beleive, like cows are the females and bulls the males, that cats and dogs were the same species and cats were the females and dogs the males

I believed the obvious ... jersey's as they're called in NZ, (not pull-overs)came from jersey cows. Life was much simpler back then!

I often saw dragonflys mating in the air while flying when I was young. I assumed that they were giving each other rides. My friends and I often pondered why the dragonflys liked to ride one another. When I asked my mother she said she didn't know why, I can only imagine how hard it was for her not to laugh now.

When I was little sow bugs, the little gray bugs that curled up when poked, were called rolly-polly's. I didn't know when I had first heard them called that, so I figured that I had invented it. I was very impressed that a word I invented was so popular with everybody.

when i was small i thought rats mutated into bats

When my sister was younger we were in Wales and she was chasing sheep. I felt so sorry for them because they were so scared I told her that she would kill them by making them run. She asked why and I told her that sheep don't have knees so when they run their legs snap and they die. Both her and my mum believed it!!!! The sheep were eternally grateful though!!!

I used to believe that cats and dogs were of one species, and that dogs were the males and the cats females.

When my cousin was about 5 years old, and I was 17, I had a green leather coat. Driving past a field of cows one day, she asked me how we got green leather, so I told her that cows came in all colours of the rainbow, but the colourful ones lived in underground bunkers so the normal cows didn't get jealous. She went home and old her mum this, and when she laughed and told her I was winding her up, she went in a huge huff at her mum for lying to her and wouldn't talk to her until I confessed!

Someone told me that sharks could kill in eighteen inches of water - it was several years before I could stay in the bath for more than 30 seconds (I still can't bear to have a bath within 24 hours of seeing Jaws on TV - and I am 41 now. I really didn't think I'd ever admit this to anyone!).

When I was small, I sat up one night watching Jaws. It absolutely terrified me and gave me an incredible fear of sharks - so much so that as a child I would never even sleep in blue sheets in case Jaws would come and get me (blue being the colour of the sea obviously! Well, it made sense to me!).

i was told that a frisky horse had a sore whatsit wrapped in a bandage (which it still looks like to me) and that a neighbours frisky dog was 'allergic' to my blue pullover - i avoided wearing it after that!

My brother told me that if i slept with my mouth open, spiders would crawl down my throat and spin webs. He said they'd spin so many i wouldn't be able to breath and i'd die. At this time i was very scared of spiders.

Gee - did any one here believe that cats were females and dogs were male?

As a kid, my mom told me that chicken eggs from the supermarket wouldn't hatch because they needed to be "fertilized" -- for a shamefully long time, I thought this meant that the farmer went into the henhouse with a bucket of fertilizer (like the stuff my dad put on the lawn) and sprinkled it over the eggs.