I used to believe that if you dressed up like a rainbow, rainbows wouldnt move if you got closer to them because they'd think you were their own 'species'. I asked my grandma to sew me one and cried when she told me she couldnt!
A childhood belief about weather

others believed things like this
- My grandma told me and my sisters that the boogie man lived in her basement and if we cried he would get us.— Paulette
- when i was a little girl i thought God looked like my grandma and dressed like the statue of liberty. Anon
- I used to believe that rainbows got scared and went away if you went outside— Kate
- I used to believe that rainbows were lights that humans sent to the sky— Julia
- my mum told me that it was prince charles who was in the Bungle costume on Rainbow.— lm
- I used to think oil patches on the roads was dead rainbows— Si