There was a BBC TV show for kids called The Wombles about these pretend creatures that live on Wimbledon Common and recycle and tidy up rubbish. One of them was called Uncle Bulgaria and so I thought that a womble must be a subspecies of badger that in reality lived in Bulgaria. I was really into nature as a child and knew that no real animal wore clothes and so I thought that they lived underground in Bulgaria. I never knew where Bulgaria was until I was older but I thought that it was mountain and deserts. In the desert, they would eat worms and insects. In mountains, they supplemented their diets with berries and grains. I don’t know why but as a child, I thought Bulgaria was like an African country and that wombles scavenged anything from human settlements. I eventually realized a womble was purely pretend and has no basis on real-life animals. =)
A childhood belief about tv shows
others believed things like this
- "The wombles of Wimbledon Common are we" meant that there were loads of them...— Mike
- I used to beleive that the computer bugs were real creatures that lived in your pc and ate away at it.— BoBo
- It never occured to me as a child that teachers lived in houses. I thought they lived at school...— Heidi, Pittsburgh, PA
- I used to believe that a morman was a scary person who lived underground(actually called a moleman).— Mike
- I thought for a long time that beaver and badger are the same animal— Ted Snow
- I always thought that the gummy worms were real worms that had been mummified— The Ice Cream Sandwich Monster