My son used to call Dalmatians - at the age of thirty-three still does call them, in fact - Raisin Dogs. It was only recently that I asked him why: he had believed that they were made of flour, with raisins stuck in them.
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One time while on a family vacation driving through the mountains we passed several steep cow pastures. The cows all appeared to stand sideways on the steep hills and my brother wanted to know why they didn't face down or uphill. My Dad said it was because they could only face the way that they were born to face because they had shorter legs on one side of their bodies and the cows had to walk all the way around the hill to go up or down because they'd fall if they tried to go straight up or down. All the way through the mountains every trip we'd be on the look-out for falling cows!
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when I was little I was afraid of flies until mom told me they were baby birds!
Before my twelfth birthday, I walked over to the store my grandparents owned, where my dad worked the meat dept. There was a tank of little fishes, twelve of them, the pet kind. I asked him what they were for, and he had me convinced they were being raised to sell in the store....as in, as meat. Boy was I surprised to get them for my birthday....
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i used to believe that cats purred with their whiskers. i know now its not true, but i still have no idea how they do it.
When I was small I beleived that if a JuneBug landed on your arm it would take the patch of skin it landed on with it when it flew away. This is thanks to my two older brothers. I'm still terrified of this harmless beetle
You know how when you drive down the street, birds fly right in front of your windshield?
Well, when I was little I used to think the birds were all sitting in a tree, daring each other who fly closest to the cars going by without getting hit.
i used to believe that butterflies could bite.
When I was a child I asked my mom how did female cats get pregnant.She told me the male cat would bite the female cat on the back of her neck.Well I believed her til about 6 months ago(i'm 28 years old) when i was watching the discovery channel.
We had this cat that would roam our neighborhood. I was told its name was "Stitches." For some reason I got it in my head that if you even touched Stitches, you would "get stitches." I don't think I even really knew what "stitches" were. I just knew they hurt. :-)
My brother and I would catch fireflies in old peanut butter jars, punch holes in the lids, and save them for the next day. When we got up the next morning, invariably the bugs would have "escaped", or so my mother told us. It wasn't until recently that my mother admitted letting them go after we went to bed. She has a heart of gold.
When I was maybe 4 or 5, I dropped my mitten down a sewer grate. For some reason, I thought that wolves lived down there just waiting for little girls to drop their mittens.
i used to believe that cats were only female and dogs were only male
I used to think that if I killed an insect, armies of its angry mourning friends would come to take their revenge on me.
I'm still kind of nice to spiders and ants... You never know...
when i was really small, we lived in a place where the mosquitoes were HUGE. there was a dead one trapped between my window and the window sill...always in the same spot (but at this time i suppose it hadnt occurred to me that life ends) anyways, my parents used that mosquito to put fear into my sister and i. it became the "eezil floss" and if we were bad girls, it would come into our beds at night and grow to humongous proportions and swallow us whole. ha ha.
Our mom told us that if we sprinkled salt on a bird's tail, it would be our pet forever. I can't tell you the countless hours we spent with the salt shaker sneaking up on birds just to have them fly away. I guess we were around 10 years old before we realized that tale was just Mom's way of keeping us occupied.
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My uncle who lived in Germany told me that he had a metalic pink cat called Ernst. I used to imagine him spraying the cat with car paint.
Like a few people have mentioned I used to think that Dogs were the boys and Cats were the girls. I think this belief came from the various cartoons I watched as a child such as "Lady and the Tramp" where the girl puppies all looked like Lady and the boys looked like Tramp and other cartoons that used a similar idea. Walt Disney has a lot to answer for. :)
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I used to believe that big grasshoppers would spit tobacco at you if you got too close to them.
i used to think that birds were gods flying dingle berries