I used to think that after a big rain you can hear the corn grow. I thought it would be a squeeking noise! I would sit by the corn field and breathe very softly.... listening. It was just the wind, but I really thought that was what growing corn sounded like.
A childhood belief about plants
others believed things like this
- I used to beleive that corn was pigs teeth. And when it was corn on the cob, I thought it was the jaw.— Brianna
- When I was little, I had tiny toes and beleived that ducks mistook them for kernels of corn and eat them.— Seguin
- I used to think that pickles were made out of frog skin and corn was old peoples teeth.— mandy
- My uncle told me that if I didn't wash my ears when I took a bath, corn would start going out of them.— Ebod
- I thought rain was made when God was crying, and wind when God blew on the earth because it was too hot.— Andy T
- I used to think that the wind that made a howling noise was a ghost.— Febi