While making bread, I asked what a yeast was. My mother replied that it was a small gerbil-like creature found in the woods.
For 11 fruitless years I searched nature books for a picture of one...
A childhood belief about general

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that a yeast infection was something you could get from eating "bad" bread.— Lauren
- I used to believe yeast could make bread rise because it really was salt with bubbles inside.— queeneve
- I used to believe that God and Mother Nature were married.Anon
- I believed that the inside of a tomato was a small, living creature and I flatly refused to eat that bit.Anon
- i used to think that mother nature was a real person— stephen s
- I used to believe that Mother Nature was The wife of God. She was the mommy and he was the daddy. — Dawn