My friend Harriet was very gullable when she was little and believed anything her brothers told her.
She was once told that if she drank bleech, ran up and down the garden 100 times and jumped out her bedroom window, she would be able to fly.
Fortunately she never got to the jumping out a window part as she had to go to hospital to have her stomach pumped.
A childhood belief about special powers
others believed things like this
- I knew lightning could come in through my bedroom window and kill me.
— Cyn - when I was little my uncle told me he was part bear. I believed people could be part bear until I was twelve. — Audrey
- I believd that if you ate popping candy and drank softdrink just afterwards your stomach would explode— Kat
- My mom used to tell us kids that if you put your arm out of the car window,that it would fall off.— Kathy G.
- I used to believe that the moon lived on top of our house because I could always see it from the window.— Classic NYer
- When I was little I thought a widow was someone who stares at you through a windowAnon