My daughter was 4 and went with her grandparents to their camp. She saw a large spider and her grandmother told her it was a "Grand Daddy Long Legs".When we arrived at camp she excitely tried to tell me about the spider and called it a "Long Legged Mother". She is still teased today.
A childhood belief about creepy crawlies
others believed things like this
- I used to think a female daddy-long-legs was called a "mummy-long-legs".Anon
- When I was liitle, I used to believe that if a spider would bite me than I would become Spider-Man!!!— IronManxD
- Someone told my that rice was really spider eggs. I still don't look at it the same. Anon
- My mother used ot tell me that if I picked my nose the 'Nose Spider' would bite my finger off.— Melanie
- If you pull off the leg of a spider it will rainAnon
- I used to believe a spider monster was in my basement— Kelly bulanek