My mother was a little girl in Brazil in the early 1960's. Whenever my mother would see a homeless person carrying a bag, her mother would tell her that those people kidnapped children and they would carry the children in the bags.
As a result, my mother was horrified and never got near homeless people with bags. Now she feels terrible and knows they were just carrying around their belongings.
A childhood belief about in the street
others believed things like this
- My mother told me that ice cream vans were ambulances for little children.— Buzz
- Until I was about 12 years old I believed that homeless people were made up by my parents to scare me.— Angela B.
- I thought brown paper grocery bags would fit more than plastic grocery bags.Anon
- i told my mother that sex was when two people get naked and tell ghost stories.— linds
- i used to think that mother nature was a real person— stephen s
- When I was young my mother told me that old people kind of shrink. I thought that they shrunk into babies.— dont know