when i was young, i had a foam rubber pillow (my preference, everybody else in the family had feathers). the pillow had internal voids and ribs (sort of like egg packaging), and i thought that this was the body of a huge, dead spider. for some unknown reason, this did not terrify me!
A childhood belief about around the house

others believed things like this
- My cousin thought ribs at restaurants were people ribs.Anon
- I used to believe in Perez mause when my teeth fall, I put them under the pillow to see what happened— AyrtonZ01
- My sister used to sing Kylie's "cheese on my pillow", somehow tears works better.— Tom
- when I was little I believed that if I put a white stone under the pillow with my tooth I make more moneyAnon
- My nephew refuses to put his tooth under his pillow in case the fairy burns him with her wand.— Nina
- My dad told me that the reason Birds didn't get electrocuted on overhead wire was they had rubber feet!!— Derricki