I live in South Africa, and when I was 10 a black kid in my class told me about one of the "mosters" of his beliefs, that waits for you in the bathroom. The thing was called 'Pinky-Pinky', it had one but and this one arm with a really long claw on it that it uses to scratch you. Also it only went after girls. But, the thing that scared the crap out of me was that there was actually a story in a newspaper about that thing that was supposed to be true!! Since then I've always been telling myself "I can scream, someone will hear me" when I think about scary stuff.
A childhood belief about fear of
others believed things like this
- that cats were only girls and dogs were only boys. I definetly didn't get the whole reproducing thing yet.— Jamie
- I used to think an evil spirit type thing called Wango lived in my dog. I was terrified of that dog.— Franklin
- I used to believe anchovies and artichokes were the same thing.— Darren
- When I was about four or five, I used to think that a "cyclone" and a "cyclops" were the same thing.Anon
- I used to believe that the sun and the moon were the same thing...just different colors— Gatorgrl
- I used to believe that tourists and terrorists were the same thing.Anon