My brother told me he could lift the house up with his pinky. I believed him because he had reasonable excuses for not lifting it up. Like that there were poisonous snakes underneath the basement and they would eat me if he did.
A childhood belief about special powers
others believed things like this
- My older sister told me squirrels were poisonous, and I believed her until I was 9.— Jenni
- I always thought that shoplifting is about lifting the shop from the ground.— Helen
- I really believed, underneath her hair, my mom had an eye in the back of her head.— Jessica
- When i was small i used to think god lived on top of my house and the devil lived right underneath it.— Missuss D
- When I was a wee one I believed dogs were either black or white underneath thier coat....It was the 60's.— maddog
- My parents always told me at night the sticks we had played with throughout the day turned into snakes.. — Sarahb