I was told as a kid that people and animals 'went to be an angel' rather than 'died', so I naturally believed that all the representations of angels that I saw were actually a type of ghost.
This stayed with me as a sort of superstition, so that anyone calling a beautiful child a 'little angel' around me would be told 'No! He's not! He's NOTHING LIKE an angel!', to their great bewilderment.
Also, the sight of children in Nativity plays in angel costumes even now fills me with dread. Don't their mothers KNOW they're tempting fate!
A childhood belief about people
others believed things like this
- When i was little i believed that clouds were cotton candy that angels lived in and rain was angel tears— Missy
- I used to believe that freckles were angel kisses.Anon
- I thought "Angel of the Moring", by Juice Newton said "just brush me teeth before you leave me"!!!Anon
- I used to believe I had a guardian angel named Salty... Salty because I didn't know if it was a boy or a girlAnon
- I was told as a child that the sound of thunder was from angels bowling in the clouds.— Patty, NY
- I thought when a road sight said Dead End that someone had actually died there.Anon