I used to beleive that I wasn't allowed to go swimming at certain areas on the beach because if I went in the water the "UNDERTOAD" would get me. I imagined a giant people-eating toad just below the surface just waiting to inhale me and a huge gulp of water if I dared to swim.
I was much older before I realized it was the under-tow (under water tidal currents which are dangerous because they can pull swimmimg people out into the ocean).
A childhood belief about water
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that your tap water came from the swimmimg pool.— Mimi
- That an undertow was a giant toe under the water that grabbed people and pulled them under.— mikita Jones
- i used to believe that the water in the ocean went away a night......then came back in the morning.— Beverly
- I thought that hydrogen was pure water (since I knew hydro- meant water) and H2O was impure some how— Hexetic
- I used to believe that if i splashed water on the wall during a bath, the water would turn into spiders— justin
- that bathroom tap water was recycled "potty" water from the toliet. — livingdeadgirl