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When I was in the 3rd grade. There was a small farm house whose yard bordered my school. They had many animals, including ducks. I believed that I could talk to the ducks and was able to convince others that they were talking to me. I managed to use it this gift to my advantage. I told many of my more gullible classmates that the ducks wanted the desserts they brought in their lunch. they would give them to me and I would feed them to the ducks. Of course daily the ducks watched curiously as I walked up to the fence and emptied my pockets of twinkies and ho ho's and feasted in front of them.

Dan rivers

When I was little my grandparents told me that cows get spots where the water, from their drinking ponds touch them. I actually belived this until about the age of 13. Needless to say I felt really stupid when I tried to tell a friend that and she just laughed at me. Now that I have my own kids I can't wait to pass on this little bit of knowledge to them. Hehe.

Melissa

I used to believe that if you planted feathers, chickens would grow.. and that chips lived under the sea with the fishes...

Anon

Meat did not come from animals. It was a different material entirely, I mean who could mix up chicken, pork and beef with chooks, pigs and cows? That's just silly.

Sim

When I was little I thought lions lived in my living room at night after we all went to sleep. I literally would not leave my room unless one of my parents was awake.

Anon

I used to believe that playing the flute or whistle at night would attract snakes to my house.

Dud

For some reason I had two weird beliefs related to octopuses when I was about five (maybe four, maybe six but around that age). The first was when Dad told me that my aunt and her roommate were visiting and for some crazy reason, I thought that they'd bring an octopus with them.
The second was that I thought that at some point in history, an octopus had tried to be Santa but then realized it couldn't breathe air, so it gave up and let Santa do the present-delivering.

Anon

My mum told my brother that 'twat' meant pregnant goldfish. Imagine the hilarity in school when he is asked what rhymes with cat.

Em

When I was very young my mom had a big rock with holes all through it she used as a door stop. Because she told us a little lizard lived in it, my brother and I would sit very quietly waiting for it to come out. I never saw the lizard but, I'm certain Mom enjoyed the silence.

Jake

When I was little, I watched lots of cartoons (and still do). A common joke was to show a school of fish actually in school! I didn't realize it was a joke until I was older!

FF3's Locke

When iI was a child Iused to believe that when children's teeth fell out they had to put it under the pillow and "the little mouse" would take it and leave a coin instead. I used to leave it a message because I wanted to meet it. Then, at school my teacher revealed that the little mouse did not exist. When I came back home I asked my mother and then I concluded that it was the same for Father Christmas. I was very sad.

AURELIE

I used to believe that a piece of flint was a fossilised penguin carcass! The outer, white- coloured part was the feathers and the dark, inner bit was the blood and internal organs. I don't know what made me think that, but I must have been really stupid/gullable (or both...).

Colin Field

A friend of mine said when she was little her grandpa told her that fish eyes made the best bait while fishing but told her to make sure that she could only take one eyeball from each fish so that they could use the other eye to see up in heaven. To this day she still only uses one eye out of every fish as bait

Rose

I used to think rats and bats were the same thing.

Sometimes when a mama rat had babies there would be a winged one and it'd fly away.

So when I got a little older I got a rat who was gonna give birth thinking she'd have a winged baby and it'd make the best pet ever.

Feral

Eu acreditava que quando uma pessoa era mordida por uma tartaruga, só conseguia se soltar dela se desse um trovão na hora.

Também acreditava que se fizéssemos "careta", e um vento forte passasse na hora, a cara da gente ficava igual à da "careta" pra sempre.

Babi

My best friend in high school had an older sister who continued to have odd beliefs about various animals long into her adulthood. To make it all more interesting, she had a habit of mentioning them seeming with no reference to whatever else we might have been talking about at the time.

The one I recall most easily was when she just dropped the statement "Sheep turn into goats." one time while we were trying to figure out what movie we wanted to go see that night.

Andy

When we had to put my rabbit Misty to sleep, I was about four years old. I didn't understand what it meant to put her "to sleep," and my parents did the best they could to explain that Misty-Bunny was going to see God. Until I was about nine, I thought this meant they put the bunny on a magic, rising platform, fixed her up, and put a halo on her as the platform rose out of a big hole in the ceiling so she could go see God.

Jet Angel

When I was young, I believed in Unicorns. I also believed you could only "see" unicorns as unicorns if you were 'pure of heart' . I wanted to see a unicorn so badly I used to put my hand over white horses foreheads to see if I could feel a horn, just in case I couldn't see it because I was bad.

The amusing thing is, I never totally lost this belief until I was ten or eleven. It was worse then knowing there was no santa claus...or is there?

Satori

I used to believe tigers were all female,and lions were all males. When they breeded and had a cub; if it were female, it was a tiger and if it were male it was a lion.

Mike

I used to believe that if you cut off a rabbit's ears, it would grow back new ears

Anon