I used to believe that my mother could talk to the birds. She would always tell me that a 'little birdie' told her that I did something.
Whenever we would be playing outside or somewhere semi-unsupervised, she would tell us to remember that the birds don't lie. talk about paranoid!
A childhood belief about birds

others believed things like this
- when I was little I was afraid of flies until mom told me they were baby birds!— Lisa
- I used to beleive when ppl didn't talk (deaf ppl) they lost their voice and could never talk again!— Tiara 10
- My dad told me that the reason Birds didn't get electrocuted on overhead wire was they had rubber feet!!— Derricki
- i used to think flies were little birds!— unforgiv3n
- I used to believe that birds subsisted on bread.— C.C.
- Birds in the sky would come down and attack me with their beaks.— Bianca