When my daughter was learning her prayers in parochial school, her homework was to practice reciting them. I was in stitiches when she spoke of the "Holy Spearmint", "Jesus, Mary, and Jophesine" (her grandmother's name is Josephine and she pronounced that backwards too!), and "Hail Mary, full of...full of...Mom, what's she full of?"
A childhood belief about prayers
others believed things like this
- "Hail Mary full of grapes" And "The Fruit Of The Loom, Jesus."— Silly Little Girl
- My brother used to say, "Hail Mary, Full of Grapes..."Anon
- "Hail Mary, full of grapes, the lord is a tree"— reenie
- In the Hail Mary prayer, I used to say 'Bless a dark fowl among women' rather than 'blessed art though'Anon
- When I was a child, I used to believe that the school attic was full of ghosts and elfs.— Lia
- I thought the Holy Ghost was the ghost of the Virgin Mary.— Texas granny