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.
A childhood belief about general

others believed things like this
- I never used to take shower after going to the beach, because i thought that tans washed off right away.Anon
- I once thought that snakes had legs like a centipede.Anon
- I thought all snakes were venomous and you always die if you get bit by a snake— Elviessa
- It never occured to me as a child that teachers lived in houses. I thought they lived at school...— Heidi, Pittsburgh, PA
- I used to believe that snakes don't have legs cause ants bit them of.— Lulzy
- When I was five, I used to believe that worms grow into snakes.— Mz Dimple