i used to think that if i was walking through long grass i might somehow find a dead cow. i don't know why it was a cow, or why i was terrified. i only remember that if the thought came into my mind, i would shudder and wouldn't walk through long grass for a long time afterwards.
A childhood belief about general

others believed things like this
- Long grass with black seeds were really ant hotels, and the seeds were sleeping ants.— angelsheep
- I use to think mountains were dead dinosaurs and grass grew over it.— Tara
- I used to believe that mushrooms in the grass grew if it was sunny and rained at the same time.— Ryan
- I used to think a female daddy-long-legs was called a "mummy-long-legs".Anon
- When I was a kid I thought praying mantises were made out of grass— Landon
- I thought hills were dragons sleeping under the grassAnon