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I knew the phrase about "room to swing a cat" was just a saying about enough space...but we immigrated to NZ from San Francisco when I was in my 30's and went farming. Imagine my surprise when the vet told me the best way to make a newborn lamb breathe after a difficult assisted birth, was to pick it up by the hind legs and swing it up and over in a circle. Imagine how I felt when it worked! I was a ballet dancer...transplanted to being an ovine midwife and had a steep learning curve.
BUT we knew a Kiwi butcher who really thought ewes had one more rib than wethers....great powers of observation...the amazing thing was he wasn't just trying to kid the Yanks.

Ms C. Dawson

My uncle Bruce always told me that Welsh sheep can stand straight on steep hills because they have two legs shorter than the others.
I'm sure it must have been high school biology lessons when the truth hit me...!!!

Rachel

I believed that cows always laid down when it was going to rain, thereby reserving a nice dry spot to lie on. I therefore thought I could predict rain before anyone else.

Betty-Ann

hai, its me sankar, calling from india,interested to add my belief.
when i was at my childhood, in india, especially in tamil nadu, most of our religion believe snake as god, and while spell the name of the snake at the night time, while we went to sleep,it may appear in your front, and it may bite u , as a belief of that still now as i was now at my 27 i never spell the name

sankar

I used to think that fireflies only came out for the 4th of July. :-)

Whitney

I once knew a guy who was absolutely convinced that if you tickled a trout on its belly, it will fall asleep and willingly fall into your net. I think he still believes it!!

4-Strings

As a child I had an unnatural fear of snakes. I was visiting my grandfather on Vancouver Island who lived on the beach. I would walk along the beach but I was terrified of the washed up seaweed since I thought that snakes lived in it.

Anon

Friend (adult) and I drove passed a place that advertised albino deer and she thought they were gulling the public because she believed that deer turned white in the winter time.

Anon

I thought jelly fish were made out of fruit jelly.

Kevin

I've always thought butterflies are all girls and bees are boys. It seemed logical to me. I still like to think of it this way.

Katy

I used to believe that male hamsters just had very big bottoms.

Karen

Everyones heard the stories about animals who live on hills with two legs shorter than the others so they could stand on hills-my version was the haggis.My mum was scottish and told me that haggises lived on hills in scotland and spent all day running round hills with two short legs and two long legs.

k

When I was little I used to live in the country. When walking with my Mum to visit my auntie I asked we would sometimes come across horse dung on the road. I asked my Mum what happened to it and she said that the devil collected it. This seemed reasonable at the time.

TJ