My mom told me when I was little that if a fly landed on my eyelid I would go blind. One day, a fly landed on my eyelid and I started to cry. I didn't want to go blind.
A childhood belief about creepy crawlies

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that blind dates were dates for people who were blind.Anon
- I was told that if you went to brd with your sox on you would go blind.— Frank L
- I used to think if a moth landed on you , you would get a mole. — karen
- I used to be terrified of fire-flys because I believed they would burn if they landed on me.— kevin
- when i was littel i thought that i coulnd shake the world case when i jumped and landed my vison shaked— Chorzo Ghost ( RuneScaper )
- i used to think that if you were blind you had to have your eyes closed. Anon