As a child I thought that if you killed a praying mantis, you had to pay God $50.00.
A childhood belief about creepy crawlies

others believed things like this
- I used to think that the praying mantis was related to the katydid!Anon
- I once for some reason thought a Mantis was a bird, instead of a bug...— Laurie J.
- I also used to think if you stared at a mantis you would be paralyzed forever.
— inma d - When I was a kid I thought praying mantises were made out of grass— Landon
- when i was little i thought a serial killer was someone who killed people for their cereal— emily
- I used to believe if someone sued you then you had to be killed. — Imaginative_Kidd