My brother once told my sister that in China they skin cats and use them for stockings around Christmas. Its not so funny that she believed him but that she was about sixteen at the time.
A childhood belief about nationalities

others believed things like this
- I was told that for every christmas carol i sang before christmas time santa would give me one less present!— K
- when i was little my sister told me that when i bite my nails it would cut through my skin and i would die! — nn
- i used to believe that coal from stockings was santa's poop because i was bad— dylan mcdonald
- Looking back at it, the belief that dogs eat cats is a pretty funny idea. I used to believe it myself.Anon
- As a kid I thought dogs stupid but funny and that cats were evil demons. — Gemini
- My sister and I thought cats and dogs were the same animal, the dogs were male and the cats were female.— Paul