A friend of the family was very very short (possibly a dwarf) and when i was about 5 I asked her why.
She said it was because her legs got cut in half and i believed her.
Right up until i was about 8 or 9 i pondered how she managed to get her legs in a pair of shoes as i imagined that she had little stumps like tree trunks.
A childhood belief about general
others believed things like this
- when i was little i always asked my mom if my aunt had ant legs or people legs.— kelly
- My grandma told me she used to think pigs came out of tree stumps.Anon
- I used to think a female daddy-long-legs was called a "mummy-long-legs".Anon
- I believed that all of my blood was stored in the calves of my legs. — Julia
- I used to believe that if I wet my legs in the sea I would become a mermaid.
— andrea - that pickles were octopus legsAnon