I used to believe that marigolds would spit at you if you walked by them because my mother told me that they were in her garden to keep away bugs. You had to take a walkway through her garden in order to get to our driveway and every summer I would run as fast as I could past the marigolds and jump into the car or into the house. My mother didn't find out why until I was 18 years old. :)
A childhood belief about plants
others believed things like this
- My mother convinced all of us kids in our family that the large rhubarb in the garden was a Man-Eating Plant. — H.Miller
- My Dad told me that Soy Sauce was made of grasshopper spit! I didn't eat it for YEARS!— TawnyKat
- There was a custard well in my back gardenAnon
- i used to believe that dumplings grew in the gardenAnon
- I used to believe that the decorative flamingos in my garden were real.— William
- I used to believe that elfs lived in the hedge at the bottom of my garden!!
— The milky bargirl