I used to think that cattle was a kind of kettle, because it was a similar sounding word. I had a recurring dream about my parents filling the kettle and saying it was the cattle, and it made a funny noise, something like "Voontoom, voontoom, voontoom". The Christmas carol "Away in a manger" has a verse which says "The cattle are lowing and the baby awakes, but little Lord Jesus no crying he makes". I thought that meant the kettles are whistling.
A childhood belief about speaking
others believed things like this
- When I was a little kid i thought cattle meant a group of cats— It's a group of cows and bulls!
- My sister used to believe that a catalogue was something that cattle drank from.— Avonmouth Wendy
- I used to believe that the rock thing they used in the sport Curling, was a tea kettle.— Kaninchen
- I was told that for every christmas carol i sang before christmas time santa would give me one less present!— K
- When I was a child my mom told me that when it rained it was because the baby Jesus was crying.— Tatiana
- I used to think that the word blurb was a noise that people made when being sick. Bluuuggghhh.— Natasha