Still to this day I wont lick envelopes bc I was told when I was younger that a woman licked one and cut her tongue and the enveloper had roach eggs on it and it got in her cut. Since it was warm in her mouth the eggs hatched and lots of cockroaches crawled out of her mouth. Ewww!
A childhood belief about creepy crawlies

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that bunny rabbits hatched from eggs, since the Easter Bunny gave you eggs.— goat
- I used to believe that only brown eggs came from chickens. I thought white eggs were made at the store— Destiny
- When I was a kid, I used to believe that cadbury cream eggs real uncooked eggs in the middle Anon
- I used to believe that if a dog stuck their tongue in your mouth, you would get worms no matter what.— ` [ A ] m a n d a .
- I used to believe that when you died no matter what your tongue hung out the side of your mouth. Anon
- I used to believe that a cow-lick meant that a cow had licked you when you were a baby.— Lindsay