When I was a little girl (like 5-6 yoa), my grandmother explained to me that people are buried after death. Obviously, I got uncomfortable with the idea of being beneath the ground forever and not feeling anything, so she told me that a tree can grow on a dead person's burial site. I thought people could be buried anywhere (not just at cemeteries) and started to worry that passers-by could hurt me by picking at my leaves. So I asked my grandma if there'd be a way to protect me from that, to which she replied that people shouldn't do that kind of stuff with any tree...
A childhood belief about people
others believed things like this
- I thought that dead people were stuffed INSIDE their gravestone instead of buried in a coffin.— Sam Shiels
- I used to believe that a street sign that read "Dead End" meant that there were dead people buried there.Anon
- I thought if you took some candy and buried in the yard, you would grow a candy tree.Anon
- I used to believe that falling leaves were dead butterflies, and I always buried them in the back yeard.— waters
- I thought the cremations were for people that wanted their love ones buried at home.— Helen
- I used to believe that people were buried in "grates".— Grate Job