When I was about six I read on the front of the Young Telegraph that a new animal had been discovered which was had the head of the barn owl and the body of a weasel. Quite logically I assumed that you could breed this animal by mating barn owls and weasels. It was not until many years later that I realised the date of this particular newspaper - 1st April!
A childhood belief about general
others believed things like this
- When I was a child, I used to think that if you eat an animal, you become that animal
— Hmza - As a young child I thought that sheep and poodles were the same animal.— Jane
- I used to believe an artichoke was an animal and we only ate its heart. — Laura
- I used to believe that an oilskin actually came from an animal called an Oil.....— Sally
- I used to believe that if you swallowed your gum that you would crumble up and smell like a dead animal !!!!— jordan
- I used to believe that people that are mascots or in big animal suits were serial killers— Amanda