Until I was about 6, I used to believe that flys were raisins with wings.
A childhood belief about creepy crawlies

others believed things like this
- I thought buffalo wings were wings from a buffalo, for years I looked for their wingsAnon
- I used to believe that if you ate enough chicken wings, you'd sprout wings and be able to fly.Anon
- I used to be terrified of fire-flys because I believed they would burn if they landed on me.— kevin
- I used to believe that shoo fly pie was made of old shoes and dead flys, and I wouldn't eat it.— Aubri
- i used to think raisins were inside out flies. i still can't eat them to this day. :)— booga
- I used to think that raisins were dead flies. I only recently started to eat them again.— Toinette'