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I used to believe in unicorns. I thought if I sat really still in the woods with a pure heart, one would come to me and be my best friend ever.

The problem was I also believed if my heart wasn't pure it would kill me with its horn. So I never tried to find one, for fear my heart wouldn't be pure enough.

anon

I've always thought butterflies are all girls and bees are boys. It seemed logical to me. I still like to think of it this way.

Katy

When I was a child, if I played up at bedtime, my mum would tell me that the nine o'clock horses would be coming!

Max

One time in Science class, biology, we had to disect squid, which have tenticles, which we were allowed to cook and eat after the class. I proudly announced on arrival at home to my parents about me disecting squids and then about how we all ate their testicles!! I didn't understand why they laughed at me!!

Jude Horrocks

I used to believe that foxes crawl like crocodiles!

Viktor

Just yesterday I thought about something I used to believe as a child and then I thought what a neat website topic "childhood beliefs" would be. Then today as I was searching Google for "cats wearing clothes" I ended up on this site. Incredible. And coincidentally my childhood belief involves cats. When I was 4 or 5 I spent lots of time looking at books. (My three older brothers all went to school and I had to stay home.) I remember seeing a series of photographs in "The Books of Knowledge" (honest that's what this series of books were called). The first photograph showed a live lion posed on a low rectangular pedestal and the next photo showed a workman putting the finishing touches to a lifesize cement lion sculpture. I cried to think that the poor lion was sacrificed to create art. I believed that the man had simply encased the lion in cement! 

Jojo

As a child, the tale of Little Red Riding Hood had me convinced that wolves were quite large enough to swallow Little Red Riding Hood and her grandmother whole, even if they were quite unlikely to actually do so. So I envisioned wolves as huge. Then I was very disappointed the fitst time I saw actual wolves (in a zoo) and saw they are no bigger than some of the good-sized breeds of domestic dogs.

Andrea

My older brother used to believe that rabbits laid eggs because of the Cadberry Bunny on the commercials that appeared to be laying Cadberry Eggs. He tried hard to convince me and my other brother and our parents wouldn't tell us any different. I guess they thought it was humerous.

summer

When i was about 6 my uncle told me that there were special hillside cows who had a pair of legs shorter than the other so they could graze on steep hills. Later i got tangled in thoughts about what would happen if they had to walk the other direction.

Jessa

When I was little I used to have these massive temper tantrums. When the occured in the car, it was especially tormenting for my mother [the driver] and to distract me she'd point out the window excitedly: "LOOK! A GIRAFFE!" or "Wow! I just saw an ELEPHANT!"
Suddenly, I'd get all excited, then incredibly disappointed when I couldn't see the animal.

Maho

I used to believe that milk came from cows, so water came from horses. hahah

Melissa O'Connor

I used to think that all female lions were tigers because they do not have a thick, hairy mane like the males do.

Anon

when i was little, i didn't understand about bulls, and mares; i thought that all cows were female and all horses were male, and that they somehow mated (which i also didn't "understand")

"Pete"

A friend of mine told me that if cows or horses were crossing a river and the water reached their anus, they would drown. I learned this when I was a sophomore in college, so until senior year I thought this true until I met my fiance's friend. He's a cow farmer and told me otherwise... but then again I'm not very convinced about this not drowning bussiness.

Jessica

I was talking to the people today (07/05/18) about a rabbit I saw on my back porch when the youngest co-worker, Norman, commented that he disliked rabbits because they dug holes in his yard to lay their eggs.
I said, "You must be thinking of the Easter Bunny because a rabbit is a mammal and mammals don't lay eggs, except for the platypus."
He was so convinced he was correct that he Googled the information. Of course, he was embarassed to find he was incorrect. He said his neighbor had told him that rabbits lay eggs and he never thought to question it.
I am going to show him this post on Monday.

RHI Guy

I used to believe that sheep were called b*st*rds, cos that's all I ever heard my mum and stepdad call them. So I'd be out with people and say "wow, look at all them b*st*rds over there!"

Sarah

A story told to me by my mom: When I was younger we were in the car and it was raining out. We drove by a field of cows and horses and I asked my mom how the horses and cows took showers? She jokingly told me that the farmer would come out and give them a bar of soap! I apparently believed her, and told my teacher how cows and horses took showers the next day at school!

manda2

My dad used to tell me that the tails of lizards would detach on its own and wriggle into humans' ears as and when they wish to. That really freaked me out. Even till now, I'd sleep with my ears covered. Haha!

Shufen

I used to believe a mouse lemur was a type of a rodent.

Anon

I used to think an anteater and aardvark were the same thing

Anon