My mom told me that if I didn't brush the tangles from my hair, it would become a rat's nest. I thought she meant that I would have rats in my hair and they would have their babies there.
A childhood belief about hair

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that tangled hair really had rats in it.— Kristy
- I used to think that bleaching your hair meant washing your hair with toilet bleach.Anon
- I used to think that everybody's hair was black and if you had blond hair, you dyed your hair.— ~_~CoolKid93_~_
- When I was little I thought that dying your hair means you kill your hair.Anon
- I used to hold my hand over my hair whenever i left the house and it was windy incase my hair blew away— lisa
- I used to believe that you could curl your hair by twirling a strand of hair wrapped around your finger— Anonymous