I used to believe woodlice were called crawly pigs. I didn't find out they weren't called crawly pigs until I was not young anymore!
A childhood belief about creepy crawlies

others believed things like this
- i used to think that the language pig latin was called pig latin because it was used by pigs— kim
- sheep were wooly pigs— CJ
- i used to believe that sausages were to pigs as eggs are to hens— stuart swanston
- I believed that pigs could actually fly. I'm 13 and found out this year that they can't.— Boy I'm Blonde
- My dad used to tell me that "smoked" bacon came from pigs that had been fed on a diet of kippers !!!— Tony . Newcastle on Tyne
- My grandma told me she used to think pigs came out of tree stumps.Anon