When a little girl, used to, i think he have a mermaid eating of humains un a sea. Because i head sen one documentary scarry on a mermaid .
So when i whert in the water i needed people near of me, because, said to my self that if tare mermaid had to eating someone she's chose adult humains and that. i whould have the time to run away, while they caught the others humains i cauld ascape.
A childhood belief about monsters

others believed things like this
- 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 young I used to believe if you died in the water, you'd become a mermaid.— stefanie
- When I was a kid, I use to believe, when I put salt in my bath water I will turn into a mermaid.— marletha
- When I was little I used to think that my mom was a mermaid because she never went swimming with me— Martina
- I used to believe that if I wet my legs in the sea I would become a mermaid.
— andrea - I used to believe that i swam more than 2 hours I would become a mermaid.— M11cazares