when i was small i had a problem bedwetting, and had to go to alder hey hospital in liverpool where they sorted me out with a star chart - blue star for one dry night, silver for two, gold for a week, etc. my mum added her own which was this - she planted a 'lollipop tree' in our rockery and said that if i managed to be dry for 2 weeks, the fairies would deliver me a lollipop for my trouble. For the next two years, 'Drumstick' lollies would appear in the rockery. I only found out that the fairies were not involved when, at the age of seven, i caught my dad planting a lolly one morning, dressed in a dressing gown and slippers. i didn't have the heart to tell my parents they had been rumbled and carried on with the lolly tree charade for a considerable time afterwards!
A childhood belief about fairies
others believed things like this
- I thought that the role of Lollipop ladies was to give out lollies. Shame!— Helen
- Boogers came from magical booger fairies that mined them over night and put them in your nose in the morning.— Vivian
- when i was young i always thought that traffic lights were big lolly pops that changed colour— rudiger2
- I used to falsely believe that planting a fruit pip in the garden would actually grow a tree or bush.— Natasha
- I thought that the star that Mary and Joseph followed was called Yonder, as in 'following Yonder star."— Kairow
- I used to believe if you planted donut crumbs in the ground, you could grow a donut tree.Anon