I used to belive if I catched grasshopper and haled in my hands for a long time, this insect would get used and wouldnt jump away!
A childhood belief about creepy crawlies

others believed things like this
- My Dad told me that Soy Sauce was made of grasshopper spit! I didn't eat it for YEARS!— TawnyKat
- I used to belive that zombie hands would burst trough the floor and grab my ankles.Anon
- I used to wonder what kind of insect "uncles" were named after.
I had "Ants" figured out.— Kimberly in AZ - I used to believe that Jiminy Cricket was a grasshopper because I had never seen a green cricket.Anon
- When I was little I used to belive that girrafes were made to play baseball because they had long necks— Matt
- I used to believe that if I didn't jump off the escalator in time I would be chopped up like mince.— Jodie