I was very converned about animals as a child. I couldn't bear to see scenes in movies or on tv in which people used whips on horses. My other assured me that they were either whipping the ground next to the horses or whipping the saddles. I believed her because the alternative was just too monsterous to believe.
A childhood belief about general

others believed things like this
- When I was little I thought cows married horses, cows were all female and horses were all male. — Sheila
- I used to believe, as a child, that horses were male cows.— Martin Taylor
- My brother believed that bacon(his favorite food) was from horses. — Jenn
- I believe there are horses making the car go fast when people told me the horse power of a car.— Jake
- I believed when young that horses with white faces were sick. My dad a great sense of humour— John Cavanagh
- I used to believe that horseradish
was made from horses.— Dee