My mother didn't want me picking up bird feathers in the yard, so she told me that they were covered in tiny little flesh-eating bugs.
Whenever me and my sister found a feather, we'd start screaming for somebody to come and take care of it, so the bugs wouldn't get us.
A childhood belief about birds
others believed things like this
- I made my bed everyday as a kid because I believed that if I didn't then bugs would get in it.Anon
- When I was little, I thought the Beatles really were bugs.— Spongekid
- I used to think that when you got like a twitching eye or something, it was little bugs under my skin.Anon
- I used 2 believe crumbs turned into bugs.— Jen
- i used to believe that bugs came out of canned bug spray Anon
- i used to think that bugs could understand and talk with us— DarkDeku