A childhood belief about creepy crawlies

My belief has to do with earwigs. NO, it is not the stupid brain eating thing thats all over this site. When I was at a relative's house (Maybe grandma's) I saw some tall plants with a big mess of platelike things shaped like a pineapple. Curious, I peeled of the plates layer by layer. Well, I was on the third layer when the back end of an earwig poked out. I thought the plant was pissed at me and the pincher thing was part of it that it reached out to grab me and pull me in! Another one is when was at my old friend Steven's house and we were going to go down the slide, but there was a spider web on it. We were about 3 years old, and thought the spider would kill us if we broke it. Steven, the clever guy he is, came up with a plan. There wasn't a spider in the web,(we thought it was out hunting) so Steven broke it and placed a baby doll nearby. We thought that the spider would think it was the doll who broke the web and attack it instead!