This is a friends belief. When her mother bought crabs for dinner, she thought that they were pets and stole one, very happy when she realised she had saved her crab from being eaten. A few days later, her mother found the decomposing 'pet' in a see-through pencil case, a load of vegitables there to feed it on.
A childhood belief about general

others believed things like this
- As a kid I used to believe that when you sharpened your pencil, the eraser on the pencil grew.Anon
- I used to belief that if you bought a car you needed to put it togetter yourself— Bugs
- i beleived that when someone bought a new house, they would swap with the person they bought it from— c
- When I was really little i thought serial killers were people who stole your cereal.Anon
- From the ages of 4-10 (I'm 10) I thought a "Cat Burgler" was a person who stole cats.— MarkoPolo5000
- If you bit the end of a pen of pencil you would be poisoned by the lead or ink. Anon