My mum told me that there were dangerous currents in rivers and from then on I always looked for currants(the berries) floating around in the water!
A childhood belief about water

others believed things like this
- i would never eat biscuits with currants in because someone told me they were flies.— ahab
- I used to look for raisins in the ocean when mum told me to be careful of the currents— Karina
- I used to believe that the school rabbit liked the red berries that grew in the hedge. But then he died.— Charlotte
- That the rivers stopped flowing at night!— Louise
- I used to think dead people are dangerous. — J.G.
- When i was a kid I used to believe that smoke was dead souls floating around— Nick aged 8