We lived in Florida and when traveling north we would see lots of spanish moss hanging from trees. My brothers would tell me that the moss was alive and if you didn't move fast enough it would reach down and grab you and carry you away and eat you. The only thing that could save you was you had to spit on it. And since it took alot of spit you had to knit extra spit in your stomach so you would have a stockpile in case you were attacked. So that was what I did on long car rides. I never questioned how you could knit inside your stomach but i certainly wanted to be ready so if anyone asked what I was doing I said I was knitting up spit.
A childhood belief about plants
others believed things like this
- My Dad told me that Soy Sauce was made of grasshopper spit! I didn't eat it for YEARS!— TawnyKat
- When I was 5, I thought cats were spawned from moss, since moss was so soft. Made sense to me.Anon
- I used to believe that big grasshoppers would spit tobacco at you if you got too close to them.— Uni
- I used to believe that if I poked my grandfather in the belly-button he would spit out quarters. — Justin
- I used to think that if you ate nuts and seeds that minature trees woudl grow in your stomach.— Gillian
- My dad always told me never to swallow the pips from apples because trees would start growing in my stomach!!— ALISON W