I used to be afraid that I would get burnt by the light on lightning bugs when you go to catch them because to me they looked like flying Christmas tree lights off the string that I had been burnt with that past Christmas.
A childhood belief about creepy crawlies
others believed things like this
- When I was little I used to believe that the brown potato chips, you know the burnt ones, were worm infested.— Eric Rustman
- I fully believed, up until about 6 years old, that the word 'accident' was a noun that meant 'burnt toast'.— Karl Goetz
- my grandma told me not to eat pizza coz the "brown squiggly" stuff there arent burnt cheese but WORMS!
— Mimi - I was told that for every christmas carol i sang before christmas time santa would give me one less present!— K
- I used to think that partridge in a pear tree was "cartridge" in a pear tree(christmas song)— Erica
- I used to believe that eating burnt toast would make your teeth whiter and would brush your teeth for you.— Natasha