When my mother was a little girl, her cousin shot his pistol into the air. Soon after, the first red streaks of sunset appeared. Mum was horrified.. she thought her cousin had injured the sky and made it bleed.
A childhood belief about weather

others believed things like this
- My cousin's mom told my cousin that pop makes you short. He probably believed it.— Molly
- I used to think a second cousin meant a cousin’s cousin.— Carlos Almonacid
- My cousin once told me that glass was made from ground up beetles, and I believed her! — benjymous
- My cousin, who's my age always thought there were two n's in the alphabet. 'l-m-N-o-p' and 'w-x-y-N-z'— Ashley
- I have a cousin who thought he could run faster when he got new shoes .. Anon
- When my cousin was younger his name was Alexander and he thought his middle name was "ander"Anon