We lived out in the country where there were a lot of ticks. Whenever I found one crawling on me or stuck to me I would take it off and save it in a tiny bottle of perfume. I thought collecting them in this way and keeping the dead ticks in captivity was somehow getting them back for biting me.
A childhood belief about creepy crawlies
others believed things like this
- My younger sibling thought that Brittany was the name of the country where British people livedAnon
- When I was little, I used to believe that Illinois (where I lived) was a countryAnon
- Whenever I got pins and needles in my legs, I thought that woodlice where crawling around inside them!— squee
- i used to think, when i was about 4 that i lived inside a whale because i live ion the country Wales— mike
- I used to think the Black Country region in the UK was called that because everyone lived in darkness there.— K
- I used to believe that everyone lived until they were 100 and you dropped dead on your 100th birthday!— Natalie