When my dad was little he thought that mistletoe was some kind of aircraft.
A childhood belief about plants

others believed things like this
- "Christmas time
mistletoe and brine..."— Santa Puncher - I thought Marco Polo was a kind of shirt.Anon
- When I was little I thought that a "wallflower" was a kind of flower that grew on walls.— A. Nonny-Muss
- The buckinghams song "kind of a drag", i always thought they were singing, "Canada Dry"— bobbybobby
- I thought that "heck" was a less horrible version of hell for people who were only KIND OF evil.— Oizys
- When I was young my mother told me that old people kind of shrink. I thought that they shrunk into babies.— dont know