Somebody told me when I was a kid that if you kill a preying mantis, it would cost you $1. Nobody told me who I was supposed to pay, but $1 sounded like a lot of money!
A childhood belief about creepy crawlies
others believed things like this
- I thought you were supposed to take money out of the collection at church.— Wangchuk
- I used to think that the praying mantis was related to the katydid!Anon
- I also used to think if you stared at a mantis you would be paralyzed forever.
— inma d - I once for some reason thought a Mantis was a bird, instead of a bug...— Laurie J.
- As a child I thought that if you killed a praying mantis, you had to pay God $50.00.— stevie p
- I used to believe that the inspection stickers on cars indicated the cost of the car, ie, a 12 meant $12 etc.Anon