i used to believe that land was floating like surfboards from this i concluded that with a good push we could collide with other countries. after my brother saw the film Jaws and explained it to me in great detail i then believed that sharks could burst up through drains and cracks in the pavement and needless to say, have avoided all cracks and drains since.
A childhood belief about landscape
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that if you stepped on the cracks of the pavement, a bear would jump up and eat you.— Nina
- I used to belief that mermaids lived in underground drains. Anon
- I thought I would fall through the cracks in my grandmother's deck.— Hannah
- that the bears which live in the cracks between paving stones are Russian— jonah fonder
- If you step on the cracks in tiles when walking through a street, fairies will die.— Maddie
- My older brother once told me that Aussie shampoo was made from kangaroo pee. I avoided using it for years!— Annie