When my daughter was very small, she used to be afraid of spiders. One night when I was putting her to bed, she complained that she couldn't go to sleep because there might be spiders in her bedroom. To reassure her, I said, "There are no spiders in here."
"NOSE SPIDERS?" she cried, leaping up and looking terrified. It took a while to subdue her fears after she imagined an eight-legged creature that would climb up her nose while she slept.
A childhood belief about creepy crawlies
others believed things like this
- I know this isnt a huge funny belief, but I used to think that all spiders were poisonous. I love spiders now!— Sammy
- My mum always told me not to pick my nose and eat it because spiders would grow in my tummy......— Ben
- When I was a small boy, I used to believe there were spiders in the toilets.— nicolas, a French student in 8th grade
- I used to believe that if I slept with my mouth open that spiders would crawl in there and live in my stomachAnon
- Farts really are Barking Spiders, right?Anon
- I used to think spiders came from rosebuds. Don't ask. It was a traumatic experience.— Zog