When I was around 6 or 7, my Grandmother told me that a friend of hers had been stung by a hummingbird and almost died. It wasn't until I was in my late teens that I found out that hummingbirds don't sting!
A childhood belief about birds
others believed things like this
- My daughter thought bumblebees were baby hummingbirds. — Carolyn
- My friend's mom told my friend's little sister thatI when a dog died, it went to a retirement home.— ellen
- My sister told me that jellyfish came out of the shower and sting you to death.— Nick (Alex's brother)
- My great grandmother died when I was 9. I didn't go to the funeral because I thought she'd be a skeleton. — Angela
- I used to think that bees and wasps only stung people on the ears.Anon
- I used to believe Sting was my dad in a parallel universe — Jenn Green