I used to have a cat, but we couldn't keep it in our apartment. I come home one day to see ants in the bathroom, but no cat anywhere. My parents had told me that the ants ate the cat; bones and all. That was when I was 8; I believed it until I was 13.
A childhood belief about general
others believed things like this
- My daughter believed that as bees made honey, ants must make marmite.— Linda
- When I was little my mother told me that the chocolate sprinkles you put on ice-cream were ants.Anon
- In primary school, a whole bunch of kids including me believed that watermelon seeds contained ants. — Caff
- I used to believe that Marmite was made of ants...— Tam
- I used to think that the gas meter made antsAnon
- I used to believe that snakes don't have legs cause ants bit them of.— Lulzy