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When I was a kid, there was this one toy in the store I REALLY wanted but it was too expensive. My friend for some reason told me that if you really want it, you have kick a rabbit barefoot and say "I NEED IT!" and then tell your parents.

It didn't work, I didn't get the toy and all i got was a bruise on my leg.

Anon

Apparently, when I was three, I thought my pet frog was hugging the flies and not eating them. I don't know if it was because I was repulsed at the idea of eating the flies, didn't want to believe my frog was a killer, thought its way of eating them didn't look right, or a combination.

Anon

When I was a child I used to believe that A BLACK WITCH MOTH would make you go blind if you saw them. In fact I remember that once in elementary school, one flew into my classroom and most of my classmates left the classroom.

Sofy

On rainy days, my younger brothers and I would be such pests that as soon as the rain eased up enough for us to go out in it, our parents would dress us in raingear and send us out to go snark hunting. We thought snarks were little lizards, like skinks, and they hid under rocks, only coming out after rain to get a drink. We had great plans to keep any we caught in a special hutch and show them to the kids at school. It wasn't until much later that I read 'The Hunting of the Snark' and realised that snarks didn't exist. It was such a disappointment that I don't think I ever told my siblings, in case I spoiled their fun. 

KH 

When my son was little we had to drive around barricades often due to road repair. Each time we drove around them my son became very anxious and scared. Years later he told me that he thought there were bear caves nearby and we drove out of the way to avoid bears.

Janice Peoples

Everyones heard the stories about animals who live on hills with two legs shorter than the others so they could stand on hills-my version was the haggis.My mum was scottish and told me that haggises lived on hills in scotland and spent all day running round hills with two short legs and two long legs.

k

My grandparents, who lived in a beautiful country house, had me catching fireflies when I was just a brat. I truly believed that during the night, while put in a glass turned upside down, they would transform into a coin, as every morning I woke up to see a coin under that very glass that restrained the firefly.

Ricardo

When i was younger I had some gerbles, named Fredy and Jummpy!!! Well one day Fredy ate Jummpy, and my older brother and I took the gerbles to the feild behind our house and dumpped them out! On the way back to the house my brother looked at me and said "You know Fredy will come back as big as you one day and eat you cause you forgot to feed them"!!!! Well for about 3 years i belived him and sleeped with my mom and dad so Fready couldnt get me!!!!

Becky

When i was younger i was told that my two rabbits (one male, one female) could not be put into the same hutch as they would fight.

The true reason only dawned on me 3 years ago at the age of 22.

Matt Richards

When I was about 3, my family used to go camping every year by a lake. Now, since I was in the water from straight after breakfast until dinner time, my skin would get really dry and so my mum would have to put aloe vera gel all over my body. I hated having it put on and used to scream and kick. The tantrum problem was solved when my mum said that if I didn't have the aloe vera gel on, the bears would come and eat me... I believed her... Now, considering we live in Australia and the closest thing we'll get to a wild bear is a koala, i now think it to be really stupid!

Beary Frightened

For 14 years of my life, I have believed that a Quail is in fact a whale. I could have sworn I learned this on the Discovery Channel. But, just recently I was informed that no, it is not a whale, but in fact a BIRD! What a conspiracy. :D

Qhaile-girl.

I used to belive that my pet rabbit was the easter rabbit and he owned egg land.

Andrew B

My father told me long ago that cows had two legs shorter than the others so they could walk on hillsides. I believed that for years.

Gullible

My son is only two, but he's seen a lot of animals on TV. Almost everytime we go outside, he looks everywhere because he believes monkeys, giraffes, and elephants are living here in the USA but they hide so nobody can catch them.

A Wild Cowgirl

When i was about 8 my sister, who is a year and a bit older than me, told me that there was a horse that could jump all the way over an electricity pylon. She said that it did it by taking a couple of miles run up! When i was about 11 she broke to me in fits of giggles that it wasn't true and i almost cried.

Izzie

As I very small girl I used to believe that corned beef came from those cows with a pattern of ragged red-brown patches on their hides. That pattern rather resembling corned beef, I imagined the cows were simply sliced up, in some mysterious way which wouldn't hurt them.

Anne Marie

My sister ate fish food one day and she was convinced that she was going to grow scales

leohauoli

When I was a kid, my grandma gave me this gross rock, telling me it was a dinasaur egg. Wanting it to hatch, I followed her directions to keep it under my pillow until it hatched. I finally realized it was a rock when was 12.

Taryn

When I was 3 years old, we moved into a new house that had mice. I loved animals and longed to see a mouse so I sat by one of the mouse holes for what seemed like an awfully long time hoping that one would pop out. My mum saw me and told me that the mice had "gone to the fair" down the road. I believed that mice visited fairs for years; later my mum admitted that she had poisoned them.

Anon

I used to believe that "wallaby" and "wobbly" were the same word (possibly pronounced "wabbly"), and that wabblies were called thus because of their wabbly ways.

Anon