I used to think that the way you got an itch, was that caterpillars were crawling around under your skin.
A childhood belief about skin

others believed things like this
- i used to believe that when i had an itch or a tickle, it was because there were ants crawling beneath my skin— Willa
- I used to think that since caterpillars become butterflies, earth worms must become moths.— Moth Man
- I used to believe that ants walked inside your body and that's what caused an itch.Anon
- In 'Call Me Maybe', I misheard 'Ripped jeans skin' as 'Rich cheese skin'. — Carly Rae Cheddar
- i used to belive a fever was a beaver crawling in my head i no right?— poe
- Whenever I got pins and needles in my legs, I thought that woodlice where crawling around inside them!— squee