I used to believe pencil shavings were the key to bringing clay creatures to life. My best friend and I made a point to volunteer for the positions in school which emptied the pencil shavings from the sharpener, then secretly stash them away and bring them home to animate a small clay monster we hid in the basement.
It never worked out as we planned.
A childhood belief about monsters
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that clay pigeons were pigeon-shaped clay figures.Anon
- As a kid I used to believe that when you sharpened your pencil, the eraser on the pencil grew.Anon
- If you bit the end of a pen of pencil you would be poisoned by the lead or ink. Anon
- i was told that if you got stabbed with a pencil (by yourself or others) you would get lead poisoning.— waiting to die
- I used to believe that when your pencil ran out of eraser that if you sharpened it it would grow a new eraser— Nikkie
- When he was a kid, my husband thought the hymn "bringing in the sheaves" was "bringing in the cheese."Anon