My brother from Texas brought his wife and two boys to visit one summer. The youngest (age 5)was fascinated with the chicken coop in the back yard. The coop was surrounded by these tall pine trees. So my mother and I took him inside the coop where the top of it was covered with pine needles. Once inside, he noticed a Praying Mantis on the side of the chicken wire and thought it was cool and went to touch it, my mother told him not to because the Mantis will "spit" at you and you'll go blind! Right at the moment, a pine needle fell from the chicken wire above us and grazed his cheek and my nephew went berserk! Screaming "I'm gonna go blind, I'm gonna go blind!"
A childhood belief about creepy crawlies
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that porcupines were humongous pine trees that could hurt you.— Shelly
- As a child I thought that if you killed a praying mantis, you had to pay God $50.00.— stevie p
- I used to think that the praying mantis was related to the katydid!Anon
- When I caught chicken pox, I thought it was down to me eating too much chicken.— Helen
- I used to believe that if you buried a chicken bone in the backyard it would grow a chickenAnon
- i used to believe that everytime you hiccupped, your pine shot up an inch; making you taller— adria