I used to believe (thanks to my mum!) that when it began to thunder, it meant that the angels in heaven were dragging around their furniture. I would always have a mental image of a bunch of angel pushing around a dining table because they wanted to rearrange their dining room!
A childhood belief about thunder and lightning
others believed things like this
- i used to believe that a ghost lived under my bed and that a giant lived under our dining room table.— nameless
- that when it thunder'd it was angels rolling barrels around heaven.— daniel copeland calif,u.s.
- My mum used to tell me that thunder was god re-arranging the furniture.— Dale
- When I was a kid, I used to believe that it would thunder when G-D was moving furniture in the sky.Anon
- I used to believe thunder was the sound of God rearranging his furniture.Anon
- I remember being told that thunder was just God moving his/her furniture around.— kipperfeet