As a child, my dad always told me that swans and ducks couldn't swim, they just walked along the bottom of the lake. How dangerous?!
A childhood belief about birds
others believed things like this
- I believed they put heated coils in lakes for the ducks to swim in the wintertime.Anon
- I thought ducks couldn't fly - thats why they swam.— G
- I couldn't understand why my grandmother wore an ear-grenade (hearing aid). It sounded very dangerous to meAnon
- i used to believe that swans were mythical creatures like unicorns or a phoenix.
— amber - i belived that ducks would take over the worldAnon
- I used to believe that dumplings were made from baby ducks. — Sarah