My Dad used to place slugs onto a badminton raquet and launch them into next door's garden whilst telling me how much slugs loved to fly. I still believe that they do.
A childhood belief about creepy crawlies

others believed things like this
- I thought gherkins were pickled slugs.— Cat
- I used to think that slugs were just snails who had lost their homes!Anon
- When I was little, I believed that slugs fell from the sky because they always came out when it rained.— JoJo
- I used to believe that slugs were deadly and they would bite you and kill you. 0_o Where did I get that idea?— What was I thinking?
- I used to believe that there was a time limit whilst using the loo.— Helen
- I used to think Jaywalkers were people who walked briskly whilst swinging their arms.. whoops!— Lisa