Living in a rural village as a small child, on our walk to school there were lots of flowers and plants, but I was particularly fascinated by the thistles. My mum (bless her - as a joke) informed me that they were hedgehog eggs not thinking that I would actually believe her......
A childhood belief about plants
others believed things like this
- My sister told me as a child that ravioli was 'hedgehog' meat.
Still can't eat it today.......— Sal Myers - When I was a child I used to belive that fairies were born from the flowers.— fantasy
- I used to believe that God was a hedgehog!!! Silly I know, but I was about 6!— Amy-Jo
- I used to believe that Knuckles (from Sonic the Hedgehog) was an enchilada.Anon
- I believed that the inside of a tomato was a small, living creature and I flatly refused to eat that bit.Anon
- When I was a child, I used to believe that clouds were solid and that you could walk on themAnon