My friends and I all used to believe that any flying insect with any red colouring was a "blood sucker" and you weren't to let it land on you or it would suck your blood and you would die. Ladybirds were not blood suckers!
A childhood belief about creepy crawlies
others believed things like this
- when I was young, I heard that blood had iron in it. I thought blood was red because it was rusty.— Hunter
- I used to believe that guns shot out blood because everytime somebody shot a gun in a movie you saw blood.Anon
- when i was litte
I used to believe that white people had white blood and black people had black blood.Anon - I used to believe that milk was cow blood. — Stephen
- I used to believe that if you drank vinegar that your blood would dry up.— Emily Hughes
- I used to think that blood was blue until it touched air.— paetrw