I used to believe that budgies lived for hundreds of years, as I was told the one in the house was the same as my greatgrandmother had had. If it died, they just bought one exactly the same, and gave it the same name!
A childhood belief about birds

others believed things like this
- i beleived that when someone bought a new house, they would swap with the person they bought it from— c
- I used to beleive that if we didn't spray the ants, there would be hundreds of them in my house taking over.— Rob
- When i was small i used to think god lived on top of my house and the devil lived right underneath it.— Missuss D
- i used to believe that when a person moved away, they switched houses with the person that bought their house— alli
- When i was younger i used to believe tha the cat gave Santa the keys to the house to get in !— Nikki Kellett
- every one lived until they were 100 and then they died no questions asked— sext4eva