An aunt of mine told me that laburnum could kill me (because of its poisonous seeds/flowers). She didn't specify *how* it could kill me though, so I thought it... radiated deadly gases or something. I'd get horribly panicky if I had to walk past a laburnum tree in someone's garden or something, ever.
A childhood belief about plants
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that sunflowers would try to kill people by shooting poisonous seeds at people.— jen
- I used to believe that slugs were deadly and they would bite you and kill you. 0_o Where did I get that idea?— What was I thinking?
- I used to believe that the dust at the top of doors was highly poisonous and could kill you.Anon
- I used to believe that worms were the lips of the dead and that green pepper seeds were deadly poison.— Gayle
- I used to believe that Limabeans would kill you if you didn't eat them.
I flushed them down the toilet.— Lima - I thought that the song "Hands off she's mine" by The English Beat was actually saying "Anton, she's my aunt"— Nate