When I was in 4th grade one of my friends told me that if you touch this certain weed that had yellow berries on it and then let the sun hit you hand you would die. On day I touched the weed and panicked for days that I was going to die if I let the sun tough my hand for to long!
A childhood belief about plants

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that if you weed your pants, an alarm would go off and everyone would know you did it.— Mr Ice Creamie
- I used to think that my right hand wasn't my right hand anymore if I turned around.— Mike
- I thought the big hand was for the hour and the smaller one was for the minutes until i was in third grade.— Time Challenged
- when i was 6 my mom told me that if you bit your nails a hand would grow in your stomachAnon
- I used to believe that I could actually cut the clouds with my hand.Anon
- I used to believe that if you put your hand in a venus fly trap it would eat it.Anon