As a child, I had unruly bushy and wavy brown hair. One of the biggest factors was my “cow lick”. Every time I heard the term, I envisioned being an infant crawling through a pasture, being licked by a cow.
A childhood belief about hair

others believed things like this
- We told our little sister that she had a long bushy tail and she fully believed us for ages!!Anon
- I was told as a child to eat the dark parts of a banana, because it was really brown sugar.Anon
- I was born brunette with brown eyes and dark hair, i thought people with blue eyes, had water in them.Anon
- as a young child i thought poo was brown from eating chocolate and pee was yellow from drinking apple juice!Anon
- I used to believe that if you licked ice-cream, it would never finish. Anon
- I used to believe that a cow-lick meant that a cow had licked you when you were a baby.— Lindsay