My mum was reading this book once about praying mantases, and i asked it about them and she said that they were dangeours and would kill u if u went near them, so i was always scared to touch them cause i thought i would get killed, didn't relise she was joking
A childhood belief about general

others believed things like this
- As a child I thought that if you killed a praying mantis, you had to pay God $50.00.— stevie p
- When I was a kid I thought praying mantises were made out of grass— Landon
- I used to believe that if you were killed, you came back; but if you were murdered, you didn't. lol!— M.O. LeClair
- I used to think that the praying mantis was related to the katydid!Anon
- I used to believe that Limabeans would kill you if you didn't eat them.
I flushed them down the toilet.— Lima - When I was about 5, I thought that English was the reverse reading of Turkish.— sel