I used to believe that newborn babies didnt open their eyes for a few weeks like kittens :)
A childhood belief about eyes

others believed things like this
- When I was little my friend told me that if you snease with your eyes open you eyes will fall out!Anon
- I used to believe that if you sneezed with your eyes open you would die!— Becky
- When my favorite Uncle died, I thought if I stared at him in his coffin he would open his eyes and be alive.— Cindy
- I use to believe that if I baptised kittens they would go to cat heaven.— Edward
- I used to believe that kittens came from pussy willows.— hope
- I used to believe hampsters were miniature kittens and that when they bit me i would be poisoned.— Dylan McDonald