An old man in our neighborhood wanted to keep the kids out of his shed. He told us there was a porcupine in the shed that would shoot quills at us if we entered the shed. About 10 years after it dawned on me....there was no porcupine.
A childhood belief about general

others believed things like this
- That Rabbit shed their tail when the seasons changed.— Jodi
- when I was growing up I truly believed that my neighborhood was the only neighborhood with "THE CORNER"— Brid
- I thought that a "sugar daddy" was a father who let his kids eat all the sugar they wanted.Anon
- I used to believe that they shoot the chickens we eat one by one at the farm.— A
- i thougt robers could shoot into the phone and the bullet would come through and hit me— knowledge
- When I was 10 I thought that if you smoked once God would shoot you with a lightning bolt!— tHOMAS