I never dared to smack a mosquito dead because I believe that if i smack a mosquito with my hands, the sting will poke thru my skin and it will suck my blood anyway.
A childhood belief about creepy crawlies

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that mosquito larvae were baby hammerhead sharks. Made the ditch a very dangerous place!— Karen
- i used to think the "Smack my Bitch Up" song by Prodigy was "Snap my picture"..like Snap my pic-cha!
Anon - I used to believe Sting was my dad in a parallel universe — Jenn Green
- In 'Call Me Maybe', I misheard 'Ripped jeans skin' as 'Rich cheese skin'. — Carly Rae Cheddar
- when I was young, I heard that blood had iron in it. I thought blood was red because it was rusty.— Hunter
- i used to think bugs could sting you through closed glass windows.Anon