After I first saw those gruesomely fascinating pictures of ancient people (but who looked like us) caught in the eruption of Vesuvius in Pompeii, I thought that lava was a magical substance that could immediately turn you to stone just by touching your toe.
A childhood belief about disasters
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that when people died, their bodies would immediately turn in to a skeleton— fv
- For a while I thought Anon was a name of an ancient philosopher. Probably Greek.— zeforeigner
- when i was little, i thought that a con artist was a person that painted pictures of people commiting crimes— kimkim
- I used to think Tomato soup was Lava.— Daniel Green
- I thought common as muck was a substance called commoners muck— oddsox
- i used to believe lava and water made electricityAnon