i used to believe that if leftover cooked rice is thrown in kitchen garden, then new paddies come out from soil.
A childhood belief about plants

others believed things like this
- my brother told me rice crispies were really fish eggs we gave to the goldfish. I never ate rice crispies.— johnboy
- My brother once convinced me that the wind was "leftover hurricanes"— Tufty the Squirrel
- when i was little i thought pigs ate only tomatoes because bacon and ham was red when cooked.Anon
- My Nan used to say that if you ate rice pudding every day you would live till 100.— Jayne
- Someone told my that rice was really spider eggs. I still don't look at it the same. Anon
- I used to believe that if you ate rice and water and jumped up and down you would explode. Thanks Dad.— Nina