I used to believe that a butterfly and a moth were the exact same thing. I thought they stayed at butterflies in the daytime and transformed into the moth pattern when it became night time.
A childhood belief about creepy crawlies

others believed things like this
- I used to think if a moth landed on you , you would get a mole. — karen
- I used to believe in the night my dog transformed in a wolf and ate the animals of my neighbourhood.— Tessy French students in eighth grade
- My friend thought butterfly was actually called a 'flutterby.'— BlutterBly?
- i used to believe if i went to sleep monsters would get my family, so i thought i stayed up all the time— Luc Lemmel
- When I was little I thought that if I stayed a long time in the water I would become a mermaid.— Salma
- When I was in Kindergarten I used to believe that when I grew up i could be a butterfly.Anon