As a Methodist child I learned that people were sent to be angels when they died. (My nan's dog became an angel-dog too.)
So when I saw paintings and statues of cherubs and Eros, I found them disturbing because to me they were dead babies and children- very spooky indeed.
A childhood belief about people
others believed things like this
- When i was little i believed that clouds were cotton candy that angels lived in and rain was angel tears— Missy
- When I was a child I used to believe stars were the dead people who we loved— Anaïs
- When I was a child I used to believe that people died in order of age.— Silvia Spinetti
- I used to think that 'Child Locking' only worked on children and that older people could still open the door.— Anonymous Whistleblower
- I was told as a child that the sound of thunder was from angels bowling in the clouds.— Patty, NY
- I used to believe that a street sign that read "Dead End" meant that there were dead people buried there.Anon