When I was in first grade my cousin told me she could swallow things and cough them back up. What I didn't know was that all she did was close her mouth and open it again and pull whatever it was back out of her mouth. I tried it with a gob stopper and almost choked in a car ride with them.
Later, in the same car ride, I complained of thirst. That same cousin told me that's what spit was for and I should drink it. So I tried it and got scared when it didn't work and thought my spit was deffective.
A childhood belief about special powers
others believed things like this
- my brother told me that if i ride my bike with my mouth open i will swallow my tounge. Anon
- My Dad told me that Soy Sauce was made of grasshopper spit! I didn't eat it for YEARS!— TawnyKat
- I used to believe that big grasshoppers would spit tobacco at you if you got too close to them.— Uni
- My cousin's mom told my cousin that pop makes you short. He probably believed it.— Molly
- when i was little, i thought that you could pull your eyeballs and wash them in your mouth— beak
- I used to believe that when you had a cousin twice-removed, they had died and came back to life twice.— Amanda