animals

"Lions, and Tigers, and Bears, Oh My!"
My little cousin Melissa used to love the Wizard of Oz. Well, when we took her to the zoo one time, she kept asking to see the "Oh My's". It took us such a long time to figure out that she thought Oh My's were a real animal from the song in the movie!

One night i was staying at a friends place. her little sister was going to bed so i said to her "don't let the bed bugs bite". I found out in the morning her mother couldn't get her to sleep because she had woken up and discovered a mosquito bite on her ankle, obviously this was the bed bugs doing! she was too scared to go back to bed in fear of the dreaded bed bugs!

When I was a child, whenever we walked through a forest, I believed that all the deer in that forest were staring at me, hidden amongst the trees.

in my child hood,when i saw the crane bird,i will rub my nails,bcos it will put flowers on our nails.so whenever i saw i will sing a rhyme"put me flower crane,put me flower crane,take me to heaven" this was my chilhood belief.

In England we call those things in the middle and side of the road that light up at night when yout car headlights hit them "cats eyes".I asked my father how they were made and he told me that all the pussy cats in the world leave their eyes in the road to help us find our way home at night and then go and sleep behind bushes until morning.I believed that for a long , long time!

When i was around 5 or 6 years of age, I discovered my pet poodle locked in coitus with the neighbors mutt. The were yelping and squealing and joined at the behind. I ran screaming to my mother and she told me that they were stuck together with chewing gum!!!

i used to believe that my aunt robin drowned my dog muffin. my family lived in california and the fleas were so bad we sent muffin to live with my aunt in illiinois. when my mom told me muffin died i had dreams that my aunt tied a rock around her neck and threw her in the lake. it was actually a dog illness going around that killed her but my aunt still has the letter i wrote her at age 7 forgiving her for killing my dog.

I used to believe that earwigs would crawl into your ear and bite your brain. I finally figured out when I was 12 or 13 my Grandad told me that to keep me out of his garden!

When my son was little we had to drive around barricades often due to road repair. Each time we drove around them my son became very anxious and scared. Years later he told me that he thought there were bear caves nearby and we drove out of the way to avoid bears.

I used to believe that insects came from raindrops. Why? My Dad told me so. I had an arguement with my primary school teacher over it, and even her clever use of fact and logic wasn't enough to convince me my dad had fibbed.

My mom told me that if I didn't wash my hair black widow spiders would come live in it.

When I was around four to six years old, I thought that if you were petting an animal and didn't wash your hands before you ate something, you'd turn into that animal. I was always too scared to test this though, because I wasn't quite sure I wanted to spend the rest of my life as a cat or a dog...

When I was very small, we lived down the road from a sheep farmer whose first name was Elmer. Until I was at least six or so I was convinced that he manufactured Elmer's Glue, because his name was Elmer and there is a picture of some kind of animal (sheep? goat?) on the glue label. I guess I thought it was a product symbol or something. It was not until many years later that I learned that glue is made from the remnants of animals like sheep and cows . . .

When I was younger, I would sleep at my grandmother's house, in the guest bedroom. She told me not to sleep under the window, because of the "terrible draft". For the following few years, I avoided that bed fearing that the "terrible giraffe" would stick his head in and hurt me somehow.

I used to believe that when we went to bed at night, all the animals in our house talked to each other.

My Nana told us as kids that earwigs crawled into your ear and ate through your brain before emerging out the other ear. Me and my brother would tease them by lying on the laundry floor with an ear on the lino. Very brave (or so we thought).
Nana also said that ticks burrow into you and lay eggs under your skin. I believed this until a Wilderness camp instructor got the s***s with me for making my fellow campers hysterical with the news.