I used to believe that our cat was a robot that spied on me for my parents. I thought that they used it to tell when I left my room even when they couldn't see me. Because my aunt gave it to us, I thought she had a control station for it, but my parents had a video screen showing what it saw through its camera eyes.
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I was told when I was young that when that when you step on a spider that it will make it rain the next day.
I use to believe that every night when we were sitting outside that the fire flys were Tinker Bell and her friends comming to dance for me....
WHo would have thought years later they would make a song about the same thing...
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I used to tape my mouth shut at night in case a spider would come along and make a web in my belly.
I used to believe that before the earth was here moths used to fly around the moon, which is why they're attracted to bright lights.
I used to believe that all dogs were boys and all cats were girls.
When I was little, I thought the cat got swallowed up by the space under my parents' headboard. (She came out after I went to bed and was eaten by a coyote.)
I used to think dragonflies could steal your voice
i used to believe that my pet cats actually had nine lives, because everytime one was lost or died, my mother would bring another back to me, exactly like the earlier one. Instead, when i got older, i found out that was a lie, because one day my mother brung one of the opposite sex, and then she finally told me the cats she'd bring me, were only different replacements she'd buy only to keep me from crying from the lost one.
I used to think that cavemen parents would punish their kids by making them sit on ants. My parents never hit me, and when I misbehaved, they threatened to call out the ants.
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Growing up, I believed (and would point this fact out to everyone - especially vegans) that cows utters would explode if they were not milked.
I used to believe woodlice were called crawly pigs. I didn't find out they weren't called crawly pigs until I was not young anymore!
I used to believe that all cats were female and all the dogs were male.. Not so hard to believe, is it?? ;o)
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when i was little i thought that dogs had puppies out of their teats, therefore the number of teats the dog had would determine how many puppies they would have
I used to beleieve that if you went to close to dragon flies in the summer, they would sow your mouth shut.
My grandfather told me that if a cat wasn't pure breed, the tail would fall of if you lifted the cat after it... Guess who paniced when he lifted the cat next-door...I knew that he was a many-mixed cat!!!
But it came came to an happy end, even though I was pretty upset with my grandfather for some hours ;)
my cousin who is about six is convinced that rabbits can climb trees, everytime i where by the woods he keeps saying that he can see them there
My aunts use to tell me that when I pouted the crows would come and bite my lips.
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I used to believe that chickens reproduced A sexually and that roosters were just handicapped chickens.
When I was a kid I used to believe that sparrows were actually pigeons' children... I was convinced that was true because they are always together and I never saw a baby pigeon or a ''big sparrow''.