i had 2 older brothers who used to tell me awful things. they told me that cow pies were really acid and if you stepped in one it would immediately dissolve your leg. so when we visited relatives on a farm and we were going to walk across the pasture i became hysterical and my father had to carry me so i wouldn't accidentally step in an cow pie and dissolve
A childhood belief about excursions

others believed things like this
- When I was a kid, I used to believe that if I stepped on a bug, it would step on me in the other world.— classroom 43
- When I was a kid, I used to believe that if I stepped on a bug, it would step on me in the other world.
Anon - a friend of my little sister's had 4 older brothers, so she thought that when you got older you grew a penis!Anon
- When I was six my sister told me Meat Pies were made from mashed up rats...to this day I can't eat a Meat Pie.— Jamie
- Little Debbie put her boogers in her oatmeal piesAnon
- After being told by my parents or relatives to "behave," I would usually reply: "I am being have."— Ed