animals

I managed to convince my younger brother when we were driving home one night, that the loose gravel being thrown up by the wheels was really a type of beetle that lived along the roadside, and was attracted to the headlights as we passed.

I thought that big spiders (Huntsman Size) could crack glass. When I was 4 I saw a car with a broken side window with what I thought was a spider masking taped in the center of the crack. I told my parents they swore they did not see it. To this day I dont know what I really saw.

I used to believe…

hai, its me sankar, calling from india,interested to add my belief.
when i was at my childhood, in india, especially in tamil nadu, most of our religion believe snake as god, and while spell the name of the snake at the night time, while we went to sleep,it may appear in your front, and it may bite u , as a belief of that still now as i was now at my 27 i never spell the name

Until I met my husband in my mid-twenties I didn't know that reindeer were real animals. I thought they were part of the "magic" of Christmas. My husband delights in telling this to everyone we know, including total strangers.

I once knew a guy who was absolutely convinced that if you tickled a trout on its belly, it will fall asleep and willingly fall into your net. I think he still believes it!!

As a child I had an unnatural fear of snakes. I was visiting my grandfather on Vancouver Island who lived on the beach. I would walk along the beach but I was terrified of the washed up seaweed since I thought that snakes lived in it.

I used to be scared of having any spiders in my room, and coming from a country that has a LOT of spiders, that can sometimes be difficult. I was afraid that even tiny spiders would crawl in my ear or up my nose, and bite me on the brain, killing me. I had to check there were no spiders before I went to sleep, and if I had to kill one, I always said sorry to it first.

Friend (adult) and I drove passed a place that advertised albino deer and she thought they were gulling the public because she believed that deer turned white in the winter time.

When I was growing up, my parents told me to allow dogs to "sniff" my hand before I attempted to pet them. Although it sounds like prudent advice (I guess they not only get your scent, but are warned before you surprisingly tough them), you can imagine my alarm at their advice becuase... I used to think "sniff" meant "bite". Not sure why, but I now never assume a child knows exactly what I am saying to them... :)

I used to be obsessed with this book about insects called "Insect World" and would insist that my mother read parts of it to me every night. About half an hour later, I would run into my parents' room, imagining giant wasps, stagbeetles, and army ants had invaded my bed!

I used to believe…

like loads of other people, cats were female and dogs were male, this was because at the pet shop they sold good girl treats for cats and we fed our dog mr. dog dog food.

When I was younger my sister in law used to own a cat. Well I always used to believe that the wrinkly skin you could see inside his ear was actually the cats brain

When I was little I heard that cats always landed on their feet so I dropped our cat from the balcony to check it out. She did but she died anyway. My brother told me that if you boil a cat alive and hold a certain one of its bones you would be invisible. Luckily I didn't try that one.

As a small child my mother told me that baby penquins lived in the fridge and that if i kept opening the door (trying to catch the light off) penquins would become extinct and it would be all my fault. I believd this for many many years!

until a few years ago, i still believed that worms were coming out of the ground to play in the rain. it didn't occur to me that they could be drowning down there...

When I was about 5 years old I was watching the birds outside my grandmother's kitchen window. Two birds was making out and their wings where flapping. I said to my grandmother: "Look, one of the birds are learning another one how to fly!"