I used to be scared of pigeons because they were always in the playground. I was afraid that they would peck the backs of my bare calves and the blood would gush out - as though my calves were just thin bags of blood that could be popped!
A childhood belief about birds

others believed things like this
- I believed that all of my blood was stored in the calves of my legs. — Julia
- I used to believe there were calves' heads in those cans of Pet Milk.— Ron
- when I was young, I heard that blood had iron in it. I thought blood was red because it was rusty.— Hunter
- I used to believe that guns shot out blood because everytime somebody shot a gun in a movie you saw blood.Anon
- when i was litte
I used to believe that white people had white blood and black people had black blood.Anon - I used to believe that milk was cow blood. — Stephen