I got a book from the library on spiders, and read about the black widow. It said that it's webs could be found behind couches and chairs. If any of my toys fell behind the couch, I wouldn't get them for fear of the black widow. My mom retrieved a whole pile of them one day. Little did I know that black widows did not live in the part of country were I am.
A childhood belief about general
others believed things like this
- My mom told me that if I didn't wash my hair black widow spiders would come live in it.— grew up in Nebraska
- I used to believe that there were red and black spiders underneath the table in the toilet.— Phil
- I thought black people were black because they drank chocolate milk. — Shelby
- When I was little I thought a widow was someone who stares at you through a windowAnon
- When i was a child, i used to believe that when people ate black beans, they became black— Mar'ia Elena
- I used to believe that black people were black because they had so many frecles that they merged together.Anon