When I was younger playing in the yard, I saw a butterfly, but I didn't know what it was. I told my mom that there were flutterbys outside, because they fluttered bye... I still call them that.
A childhood belief about general

others believed things like this
- when i was a kid, I used to think that butterfly shaped pasta could fly and I didn't eat it.— Sabrina in Italy
- When I was in Kindergarten I used to believe that when I grew up i could be a butterfly.Anon
- My friend thought butterfly was actually called a 'flutterby.'— BlutterBly?
- I used to believe that beauty marks (freckels) were Butterfly bites!— Jolene
- My father used to call soya sauce "monkey blood". I didn't even consider tasting it for years!— Me
- I was told as a kid that when it thundered, God was playing basket ball. LOL! — Tony