I believed for many years if I was caught taking the shortcut to school I would be glued to the ground. I was in grade one when the older kid told me this. I thought I would turn into a statue with birds nesting on my shoulders.
A childhood belief about in the street
others believed things like this
- my mother told me if i ever swallowed chewing gum i'd turn into a pig, i believed this for many years.— stuart hayward
- My brother told me that I would turn into a boy when I got older. It made me cry.— Sarah
- Until I was in High School, I really thought that the "underground railroad" was under the ground.— S
- When I was very small. by older brother told me that if I "Kissed my own elbow, I would turn into a boy."Anon
- My cousin once told me that glass was made from ground up beetles, and I believed her! — benjymous
- When I was 12 years old, I used to think that a statutory rapist was a rapist who rapes a statue.Anon