When I was a child, I went through a Digimon phase. One night me my brother were outside jumping on a trampoline or something and we saw some little floating lights swirling around us. There seemed to be more and more of them and I got terrified cause I thought I was getting sent to the Digimon realm or something, so he and I ran away screaming. So that was my first experience with fireflies.
there was a thing I called the “tiger cat” which was just the creepy racoons from the “roll out” section of Fievel Goes West. It lived in my cupboard and I was terrified of it for months. Wouldn’t eat with my back to it. Until one day my grandpa came over, told me to go to my room, made a ruckus and threw it into his trunk, driving it off far away where it could never get me.
The scene in question. The racoons (tiger cats) appear at 28 seconds.