When I was about 4 or 5 my cousin who is three years older told me if i said the word "snakes", snakes would attack me.
i didn't say the word "snake" till i was nearly nine.
A childhood belief about general

others believed things like this
- I thought all snakes were venomous and you always die if you get bit by a snake— Elviessa
- My parents always told me at night the sticks we had played with throughout the day turned into snakes.. — Sarahb
- I used to believe that snakes don't have legs cause ants bit them of.— Lulzy
- When I was five, I used to believe that worms grow into snakes.— Mz Dimple
- I once thought that snakes had legs like a centipede.Anon
- I belived that when I took a crap, my turd(s) would turn into snakes and bite my booty.— Butters.