As a small child, I was told that if you dropped leaves on a cat it would scratch your eyes out. This began a long fear of cats which would make me cross the road to avoid them.
A childhood belief about cats and dogs
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that the cats eyes in the road...reflectors...were the eyeballs from real cats.— Liza P.
- I used to believe that cats eyes were lit up by a man running under the road with a torch— Martin
- I used to think that when you made food 'from scratch', that scratch was an ingredient like starch.— Aynsleigh
- If you cross your eyes, they will get stuck like that.Anon
- if you cross your eyes and there's a gush of wind, you'll get stuck like that !!— Olivier
- When I was little, I used to believe that deer could only cross the road at the deer crossing signs. — Shellie