When I was little I heard that cats always landed on their feet so I dropped our cat from the balcony to check it out. She did but she died anyway. My brother told me that if you boil a cat alive and hold a certain one of its bones you would be invisible. Luckily I didn't try that one.
A childhood belief about cats and dogs

others believed things like this
- I used to beleive that a straw would float in soda because a little invisible elf would hold it up.— Mike
- My brother used to be scared to poop in the potty. He thought that he was pooping out his bones.— Lillyth
- my older brother told me that if i didnt clean every bit of dirt out of the prints on my feet, i'd die— chel
- As a child I believed that cats, when they died, became owls and always accompanied you. — AdryLiz
- i used to believe there were invisible sharks in the deep end of the pool, thanks to my older brother.— Melissa
- When my favorite Uncle died, I thought if I stared at him in his coffin he would open his eyes and be alive.— Cindy