When I was little, I heard that starfish eat out of a little hole in their back. We had a few (dead) starfish in our house from the beach, and I was scared to death that they would attack me and eat me. To protect myself, I took some clay and covered their little hole so they couldn't eat me.
A childhood belief about general
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that clay pigeons were pigeon-shaped clay figures.Anon
- I used to believe that if you dig a hole in the ground and put pepper in the hole, the ground would sneeze.— Cookie
- When i was little, i use to believe that mountains where actually dead dinosaurs covered in dirt. — Patricia
- I used to believe that a cat's butt hole was on the tip of his tail.— PANTS
- My Mom used to tell us that if you bit your fingernails, they would cut a hole in your stomach.— Linda B
- My older brother told me that speed bumps were really dead people covered in cement.— Trina