I once read a book about a young woman growing up in the Victorian era, and at one point she talked about having to sew darts into her bodice. I figured that was how women defended themselves back then, by keeping sharp objects known as "darts" hidden in their bodices.
A childhood belief about history
others believed things like this
- I used to beleive that if you point at a graveyard, it would point back!!(whatever that meant)— scary ashley
- I used to believe if you read a book in the dark, you would go blind.— Ellen
- I read in a book that if you ever swallowed toothbrush bristles then you would get appendicitus!— Amy
- My sister used to tell me that Victorian houses were shiped from Victoria after they were built.Anon
- When ever someone said ''read aloud'' I assumed aloud was the title of a book. Lol.— Delaney
- when i was young i believed that gay men got married to gay women!— robster