When I was in kindergarten a kid told me that moles were really iniature moles (the animals) that had dug into your skin then reached back out and cut off their tales.
A childhood belief about skin

others believed things like this
- i believed that moles wore davy lamps on their heads so they could see underground— Omi
- I used to believe that after I cut my stuffed animals hair that it really grew back! — Kristy
- In 'Call Me Maybe', I misheard 'Ripped jeans skin' as 'Rich cheese skin'. — Carly Rae Cheddar
- when i was little my sister told me that when i bite my nails it would cut through my skin and i would die! — nn
- I remember a girl in my kindergarten class told me she wanted to be a waterfall when she grew up.Anon
- When I was little my dad told me that if you drank too much coffee it would make your skin turn black. Anon