I used to believe that if you managed to get enough "butterfly dust" off a butterfly's wings and covered yourself in it, you could fly!!
A childhood belief about creepy crawlies

others believed things like this
- When I was in Kindergarten I used to believe that when I grew up i could be a butterfly.Anon
- when i was a kid, I used to think that butterfly shaped pasta could fly and I didn't eat it.— Sabrina in Italy
- My friend thought butterfly was actually called a 'flutterby.'— BlutterBly?
- I used to believe that beauty marks (freckels) were Butterfly bites!— Jolene
- I thought buffalo wings were wings from a buffalo, for years I looked for their wingsAnon
- I used to believe that if you ate enough chicken wings, you'd sprout wings and be able to fly.Anon