creepy crawlies

I once belived that 'tiger spiders' (Named that cause they were stipey like tigers) turned into tigers at night, thanks dad...¬_¬

A clappy, happy, chappy

I used to believe that worms were the lips of the dead and that green pepper seeds were deadly poison.

Gayle

I always thought wood lice were called cheesybugs as that is what my Mother had told me. I was later totally embarrassed when I was informed that they were in fact wood louse.

Caroine Crowley

As far back as I can remember my dad used to tell me spiders can jump off walls and bite you. I am still terrified of spiders now. Even though you dont get deadly ones in the UK!

Zoe

As a child, nits were a common affliction in our family. My hair was very long, and it was always a real business to get them out. Because I was told they were blood-sucking creatures, I believed if they were in there too long they'd suck so much blood out of my head I'd faint.

Nit-free - hurrah!

I used to get scared to wash spiders down the bath or sink, because they always seemed to reappear in the sink in my bedroom, and I was convinced they'd gather all their spider friends together to gang up on me. To combat this, as I didnt fancy taking baths with spiders, I used to put the plugs in all the surrounding sinks as soon as I'd done it.

Nowadays I'm not so scared, primarily because I dont have a sink in my room anymore, and also because if there is a spider in the bath I'll have a shower, and vice versa, like last week, when there was a spider above the shower and I was scared it would fall into my hair.

Gemz

I used to belive that ladybugs turned into real ladys

Anon

I once saw this educational program thingy on tv when i was a kid and saw how spiders can have lots and lots of babies. I was always afraid that when i got home, million and quadrillion of spiders would crawl onto to me and lay eggs into my brain. I'm still out creeped out by spiders after that show.

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I am still afraid of geckos until now because it's an old wives' tale in our country that if one stuck on you, you would never be able to take it off unless you showed it the bottom of a pot or of a Aeta, an indigenous race here. I'm still not sure until now if it's true, so I just stay away, just in case.

Andrea

when i was 6 i used to think that butter came from sqwached butterflies and then i saw this tiny butterfly with was more or less the same colout as butter i gave it to my dad ( coz i dont like butterflies) and said to him dad heres a good butterfly mabey we can have some homade butter on our toast you shodov seen the look on his face

rosie metzner

When I was three and a half years old we had a grill-out with visiting family and my cousin, five years older than I, told me that he saw a fly poop on my burger. I freaked out and refused to eat the hamburger even after my mother reheated it.

John

I used to believe worms at ginat teeth and when it rained they were looking for people to eat. I was 11!!!!!! I wanted to un over each worm with my scooter

Alicia

As a kid, I learned of the existence of spider webs and cobwebs long before learning of whatever critters might have constructed them. Not surprisingly, I have since learned what spiders are. But I still have no idea of what, if anything, cobs are if they are what makes cobwebs.

Charles

When I was little, my sister told me that if a cockroach bit me, I would get cancer and die. After that, whenever a cockroach was found in our house, I would pretend to be sick to make my parents take me to the doctor's.

Susie

My mom told me when I was little that if a fly landed on my eyelid I would go blind. One day, a fly landed on my eyelid and I started to cry. I didn't want to go blind.

Anon

When i was younger, when i pouted, my mom would tell me that a grasshopper would land on my lower lip. i never understood what she was trying to gain by saying that and she never seemed to understand that didnt make me stop pouting because that was all she said.

Some Bored Guy

When my mom was a teenager, she lived in California, and had never seen a firefly. So, she always thought they were mythical creatures like fairies and unicorns. What a surprise she had when she moved to the northeast!

Rdawgg

I used to think that slugs were just homeless snails. Or something like that.

FightingTurkey