when i was a little girl i took a broken fly to the vets and said it had a broken wing. the vet took it and placed it in his hands and said abrakadrabra and chucked it in the air. he said it was mended and that it had flown away. i belived this for a long time.
A childhood belief about creepy crawlies
others believed things like this
- When I was a little girl I used to believe cats were broken because of their moter sound when they purr— Shaune F.
- When i was about 5 I used to believe that Broken Hill was a broken hill. — Saad
- I used to believe that comets were pieces of the Sun that had broken off.— Carmen
- Broken bones meant that your arm or leg was separated from your body.— Kelly Hanson
- I used to think bogies were made of dead flies which had flown up my nose.— Kate
- I believed until near adulthood that when I was 6 or 7 I had actually flown for several feet in my back yard. — Jane S Poole