When I was very young my mom had a big rock with holes all through it she used as a door stop. Because she told us a little lizard lived in it, my brother and I would sit very quietly waiting for it to come out. I never saw the lizard but, I'm certain Mom enjoyed the silence.
A childhood belief about general
others believed things like this
- I used to believe my mom kept a lizard in her purse that would bite me if I got into it.Anon
- When I children, I used to believe that the frog grew then was forming until that tunerd in a lizard — Luis
- When I was young, I used to belive that
if you pushed the stop button in the bus it would stop for good.— Tom (Norway) - My friends and I used to believe that if you planted a rock, it would grow a rock tree. Anon
- I believed that fairies lived in lamp posts - their front doors were the little holes where the key fits.— Janice
- I always thought that a little person lived inside each mailbox waiting to take my letter to its destination.— Anne