I was a pretty gullible child so I believed just about anything people told me.
From Dad: The neighbor's sheep had black faces because he fed them coffee.
The bull was playing leap frog with the cows.
From a cousin: Angels used sunbeams to slide down to earth, saving their wings for the flight home.
Don't eat soft eggs or a baby chick will form in your stomach. (I can't stand loose eggs to this day)
But on my own, I couldn't figure out how trombone players could swallow all that metal when the pulled the slide back toward themselves.