When I was little my brother told me about the 'undertoad' of the ocean. For about three years after he told me this I was positive that every time I went near the ocean I would be grabbed by the giant undertoad and washe out to sea. I wouldn't even put my toes in the wavelets!
A childhood belief about water
others believed things like this
- I remember being scared of the ocean for a while as a little kid. I thought lobsters would pinch my toes.— Flipper
- At the ocean's horizon there was a giant waterfall.— Stephanie
- I used to think that the song "My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean" was really "My Body Lies Over the Ocean."Anon
- I used to look for raisins in the ocean when mum told me to be careful of the currents— Karina
- I believed that the yellowish foam by the ocean was dolphin pee because my dad told me Anon
- I used to believe that somebody turned the ocean waves off at night.— David