When I was 8... I read the book Fantastic Beasts and where to find them, which is written as part of the harry potter books.
I read the entry about a Letifold which the book said was a big black blanket-like animal that slithered under the door and ate people. I made my parents keep my bed facing the door so i could always see if there was one crawling in. Then I read the book again and noticed that it said they could only be found in tropical areas. So i was safe.
Then my parents made me go on vacation to Hawaii. I cried myself to sleep because I was so scared. After we went home my parents managed to convince me there was no such thing.
A childhood belief about reading
others believed things like this
- I used to believe if you read a book in the dark, you would go blind.— Ellen
- I read in a book that if you ever swallowed toothbrush bristles then you would get appendicitus!— Amy
- When ever someone said ''read aloud'' I assumed aloud was the title of a book. Lol.— Delaney
- Until I was about 12 years old I believed that homeless people were made up by my parents to scare me.— Angela B.
- I thought my parents had written "Don't Worry, Be Happy".Anon
- I believed the book Babar was how my name was spelled.— Barbara