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that snakes were white in the winter so they could hide under the snow. Therefore I had to always wear thick shoes.

mikey

I used to think spiders came from rosebuds. Don't ask. It was a traumatic experience.

Zog

I was very converned about animals as a child. I couldn't bear to see scenes in movies or on tv in which people used whips on horses. My other assured me that they were either whipping the ground next to the horses or whipping the saddles. I believed her because the alternative was just too monsterous to believe.

Artamnesia

My Dad convinced me that Manx cats had no tail - and only three legs.

Jim

To clean the goldfish you put washing up liquid into its bowl.

Sev

that Koala bears lived in the eucalyptus trees in Tilden Park (Bay Area, CA).

Anon

One of my old babysitters told my sisters and me that if we went outside without shoes on, then we'd get 'hookworms' hooked onto the bottoms of our feet and they'd go into our skin and kill us.
We still didn't wear shoes...

Liz G.

i believed that sheep who live on the side of reservoirs had two legs shorter than the other and that they had to walk around the reservoir in the same direction otherwise they’d fall over.

Kate

When I was 7 a big kid told me dragonflies shot arrows from their back. I was afraid of dragonflies for 7 years.

Dan

I used to believe blue crabs, stickers(sand spurs), and barnicles were all made by the devil.

I grew up on a river and as a little boy, played in the empty lot next door and down by the river. Of course the 3 things that hurt me way back then were blue crabs, sand spurs, and barnicles.

J M Woodburn

My wife and I have convinced both our children that the bales of hay you see no-a-days wrapped in polythene are actually cow eggs.

Paul

When I was 5 my family bought a rabbit off one of my Dad's drinking mates. He said his own pet had had babies and it's name was peter. For the next 5 years he hopped along happily eating hay and dropping little brown balls on our balcony. It was only when he died we found out from the vet that he was a she. My Dad's friend had stolen "him" from a field.

The first and last transvestite rabbit?

Pierce

It used to be common school knowledge that the meaning of 'twat' was a pregnant goldfish ... later on i found out the real meaning ... but in in bizarre twist found out that a pregnant goldfish is in fact called a twat (or a twit depending on
which books youread)

cow23

When I was 4 I believed I was a dog

Henry (the hound)

When I was about 6, my brother told me that if you threw a stick into a pond, and then waited for it to drift across to the other side, then drift all the way back, then the stick would have a little fish stuck to it. And the name of that kind of fish was a stickleback.

Farino