I was told when a bee stung you it lost it's stinger and died, but I heard wrong and thought if you were stung by a bee you would die. Well one day I was stung by a bee and I started cyring and cryingg and wouldn't stop until my parents told me that i heard wrong.
A childhood belief about creepy crawlies

others believed things like this
- I used to think that bees and wasps only stung people on the ears.Anon
- Turtles can fly. I believed it for ages.
My turtle got lost or probably died and I was told it flew away.Anon - When I was little my sister told me that if I put a C.D. in the wrong case, it would mess up the C.D.'s songs.— Torrie
- i used to believe that parents do things to make there children happier. well i was wrong. — Emma C.
- whenever i heard a melody, i thought it stuck in my stomach when i heard it in my mindAnon
- When I was a kid, I thought you could get arrested if you accidently walked into the wrong restroomAnon