animals

I used to believe that ants did work thanks to very very tiny batteries. I didn't dare to kill them, but, when I did discover an ants corpse, I tried to open it carefully to try to find the batteries, and show them to mom and dad

when we were in a bad mood and stuck our lower lip out - our mother would say that a bird would shit on our lip

When I was a kid I used to believe that we can catch a sea gull throwing salt at its tail. So i always carried some salt when going to the beach in case I saw one.

I'm 16 years old, and I have aracnophobia.
Just about all my life, I've been worried about spiders and other creepy bugs in my room. They occasionally come in too. Rarely spiders, mostly moths. Some times, when a moth or a fly flies around in my room, I have problems sleeping. I try opening my window and make it fly out, but there's no way I'm touching it. If I don't succeed, I leave it be, turn on the lamp in the ceiling, so that it'll at least stay in one place (on the lamp) and not make so scary sounds. It also rids the fear that it'll land on me while I sleep or while I try to sleep.

As late as when I was about 14 years old, I always thought it creepy to place my feet on the floor when getting out of the bed. I did it, and I knew of course it was irrational thinking, and it was just stupid to think something could be hiding under my bed, but it always made me feel uncomfortable.

I think both these fears of mine have to do with the Idiot Box, the TV. Having seen a few scary movies years ago, darkness always has been scary, because you never know what might happen or what might be hiding in the dark. Not necessarily scary things, but also you might hurt yourself if you bump into things. I also saw a documentary about aracnophobia on TV once, and fear for bugs generally. They said maybe the phobia was caused by the bugs' unnatural looks, and then they showed terrifying enlarged pictures of bugs with moving antennas and hairy mouths and legs and so on. Even though I may know more about the reasons for my phobias now, I still feel uncomfortably being in total darkness, and my phantasies still come to me, even though I know perfectly it's just absurd. I kind of like the darkness after all, exploring my own fears. Very fascinating. Good scary movies can make my hair rise all over my body, but I sort of like it too.

When I was a little girl, 3-4 yrs or so, my parents told me that the black cows and sheep had been in the fireplace, and that they were dirty.. Naturally, I believed they would be clean after the next rain fell..

When i was little i was so scared of cats, because i taught the turned in to tigers if you saw them.

When I was 8 I was terrified of huntsman spiders. One day my cousin told me that they could slide right under my bedroom door. I think I blocked under there with clothes to get rid of the space.

I used to Believe that animals could only think and respond to english orders so people in other counrty speaking other languages had to learn engish before they could teach there animal tricks or take orders

When I was 7 I was very into the animal kingdom and argued with my teacher for the rights of animals to have their names spelt with a capital letter eg 'Tiger' not 'tiger'. This was because it was a name - why should animals not get the right to have a capial letter st the front of their names just like humans do!?.

I always thought that cows were the opposite of horses, cats were the opposite of dogs, frogs the opposite of lizards, lions the opposite of tigers. This worked very well for me in helping me put my perception of the animal world in order, but when I came acroos animals that I couldn't pigeon hole in this way it filled me with a real feeling of unease...

my pop told me if I put salt on a magpies tail I could catch it !!

Guess what ?
I did catch one !!
It was injured but I thought it really did work (sigh)

i used to belive if you picked a guinea pig up by it's tail it's eyes would pop out

My husband had received his first BB gun for Christmas one year and decided to go hunting. He was so thrilled to bring home a bird. When asked why he was so excited he told his parents "I did it, I shot him right in the pecker". After they finished laughing, his father explained that he shot the bird's BEAK.

i used to believe that if a moth flew into your ear you would go deaf, to this day i am terrified of moths

when I was little, I used to belive that if I didn't go for lots of walks with my dog, she would eventually explode.Which made it so I walked my dog everyother hour.

I was probably around 4 when I had convinced myself that a bug would crawl into my mouth while I was asleep. I would do my best to fall asleep with my hand covering my mouth. My mom told me later she couldn't figure out why she would find me asleep with my hand over my mouth.