My mum told me as a little kid that all feathers had bird lice on them so you couldn't pick them up. This was because I would always come home with collections of objects in my pockets. When I was 19 this had still never been contradicted and I told my then boyfriend (now husband) to quickly drop a feather in great panic!!!! How embarrasing.
A childhood belief about creepy crawlies
others believed things like this
- Ice cream was made from feathers. My brother told me it was.— ed209
- when I was seven my brother told me that if I swallowed chewing gum my arm would drop off.— john
- I was told when young that if i kept poking my bellybutton my bum would drop off.— vicky
- My mom told me that rain would help me grow... at a small 5'3" the reality set in quickly.Anon
- My auntie was told by her husband that glacia cherries were made of seaweed, she wouldnt eat them for years. — emma
- i used to believe "eaves drop" was actually "ears drop"— sophie