One day while at a cottage when I was 4, my nanny informed me that if i swam in the lake, fish would bite my toes off because they looked like little worms. I did not swim in a lake for many many years afterwards.
A childhood belief about general
others believed things like this
- i used to believe that scampi was fish toes instead of fish fingers....Anon
- I always thought that the gummy worms were real worms that had been mummified— The Ice Cream Sandwich Monster
- For years and years I believed that tuna must be really little fish because they came in such small cans!!— Gisela
- My mum used to tell me that cottage cheese was cows brains. I still ate it. — Justin
- that cottage cheese came from the roofs of cottages— shirley
- I used to believe that a fish cake was a fish in sponge and coated in icing. I believed this until I was 9.Anon