My dad used to tell my nephew if he was running around with no clothes on (he was 2 or 3) that the ducks would bite his bum. He believed him, and when I took him to a park once he wouldn't go near the ducks because he thought they were going to bite him
A childhood belief about birds

others believed things like this
- I believed they put heated coils in lakes for the ducks to swim in the wintertime.Anon
- I thought ducks couldn't fly - thats why they swam.— G
- i belived that ducks would take over the worldAnon
- I used to believe that dumplings were made from baby ducks. — Sarah
- When I was little, I had tiny toes and beleived that ducks mistook them for kernels of corn and eat them.— Seguin
- I thought that toilet paper was bread and by puting it it the toilet i was feeding the ducks at the bottem.— Gringo