I remember the first time I saw a manx cat and I thought it's tale had been cut off. My grandma tried to tell me otherwise, but I wouldn't believe her.
A childhood belief about cats and dogs

others believed things like this
- My Dad convinced me that Manx cats had no tail - and only three legs.— Jim
- I was afraid of my grandma because i thought she had germs because she was german!Anon
- i, too, thought my grandma made up the bushel and a peck song. :)— nessa
- when i was a little girl i thought God looked like my grandma and dressed like the statue of liberty. Anon
- I thought when Grandma's hens were cackling, they were giggling about some private joke in the henhouse. — Not a farm kid
- I remember drinking red kool aid and peeing at the same time. I was expecting it to be red.Anon