Whe i was about six we had a natural sponge. And as you do when your a little kid i used to bath with my sister. She always used to tell me an octopus lived inside of it and that if i used it, it would leap out and kill me. I threw a fir when my mum washed me with it.
A childhood belief about general

others believed things like this
- I used to think that when I was in the bath I shark lived under the bath and that ig might come up and bite me— ------------
- that pickles were octopus legsAnon
- I used to think that 'testicles' was the word for the arms of a squid or an octopus. — Emily
- My uncle convinced me that if you ate octopus, the suckers on the tentacles would suck your tongue out— Minnie
- From the Carpenters hit I always sang "calling octopus of interplanetary craft" instead of "occupants".— Paul
- I used to believe that a fish cake was a fish in sponge and coated in icing. I believed this until I was 9.Anon