When I was very young, after a night of catching fireflies with my brother, my brother filled the jar with green fuzz from His sleeping bag and told me, that after a few hours. Fireflies turn into that green fuzz. If you Keep them captive for too Long... I believed this until I was about. 10 years old.
A childhood belief about creepy crawlies

others believed things like this
- I used to think that fireflies only came out for the 4th of July. :-)— Whitney
- I use to believe the fireflies were birds with spotlightsAnon
- i thought that if you sucked yerr thumb long enough it would turn green. dont ask why! — jordan
- I was told that if i didnt wash my hair regularly it would turn green— Mimi Screami
- I believed you had to color all the dinosaurs in coloring books green because all the dinosaurs WERE green.— Betty
- When you lie your lips move or your eye turn green— Tanya