animals

When I was around 5, my parents brought ducks home. They said that it would be my pet. The next day they were butchering and cooking it. I asked "What did they ever do to you?" and didn't get a good response. I never ate duck (or didn't like to eat it) ever again.

before i could read and write, my mother ingrained in me that the droppings of birds were called 'bird spit' rather than the 1 letter difference of which at the time i had no knowledge. for a long time, i thought that bird droppings were universally known as spit even though it had nothing to do with saliva, just as a baby goat was called a kid, even though it wasn't human.

We lived across the street from a wooded area. My sister used to tell me that prickly type bushes are what snakes grow from. It also made me very nervous. One day while we were out there and it started to rain, she added the fact they grow MUCH faster in the rain. I ran screaming all the way home.

Until I was 10, I used to believe that rats has poisonous tails. Somebody told this when I was much younger and I unquestioningly believed it. Eventually, I passed this information on to my friend Roger's younger brother when we were in the nearby ravine. Afterwards, Roger set me right and chewed me out for making it up to scare his brother. I realized how ridiculous it was and was very embarrassed.

When i was a youngin'.. i remember the label of Vaseline (Petroleum Jelly)used to have a picture of a cute lamb with its mouth open..i wondered what it must be made of ... so i came to the conclusion it was made from sheep drool

I used to believe…

childhood camping trips to scotland often ended with my younger brother running across the fields after haggis, those cute little critters indigenous to the country. anything small, furry and fast was automatically classified as such, despite any rabbit-like tendencies in the creature itself. it was my mam and dad who encouraged this, the cruel sods.

My Grandmother told us kids that if we didn't clean up all the hair after we go our hair cut, birds would steal the hair and make nest out of it and we would get headaches.

I used to believe that dogs were boys, and cats were girls.

When I was very young my mom had a big rock with holes all through it she used as a door stop. Because she told us a little lizard lived in it, my brother and I would sit very quietly waiting for it to come out. I never saw the lizard but, I'm certain Mom enjoyed the silence.

I used to believe that if I could keep a worm alive long enough that it would eventually turn into a snake. Unfortunately for the worms, I always kept them in dry boxes.

When I was a kid my dad ground up fruit flies to get at their imaginal discs, which were involved with development of the legs and wings in the adults. I tried to get him to explain this once, and ended up convinced that they were "imaginary" discs (I asked what they looked like, and he said you couldn't see them). For years I couldn't understand the point of grinding them up.

Once I asked my mom what the little specks flying around in a ray of sun shining through the window were. She said it was "flying dust". I misunderstood, and thought she said "flying dogs". For years, I imagined these microscopic cats and dogs flying around in rays of light.

When I was little I was always told not to step on any spiders,bugs were okay but not spiders.If you did it would rain the next day,an odd childhood belief I had but I am suprised that children today,and from different parts of the world believe this myth as well.

An eccentric woman on our street had mouth surgery once, and told the neighborhood children that the stitches in her lip were from a dragonfly and that dragonflies sew your mouth shut if you let them land on you. I believed this for years.

I used to believe that since 'bitch' was a female dog, that 'bastard' was a male dog. Boy was I surprised when I realized it wasn't, at the table with my friend's parents.

When I was around 4 my sister told me the "truth" that my real parents were rabbits, and that my dad found me in the backyard whilst mowing the lawn. She said mom and dad only took me in because they felt bad about almost mowing me over. For years after I'd see a rabbit and wonder if it was a relative. Damn sister.