i used to belive ( cause dad told me ) that if i catch a shagg (sea bird) and pull its tail it will sing the ABC. i spent 3 hours running up and down the beach trying to get a shag
A childhood belief about birds

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that you could catch a bird by putting salt on it's tail— Eli
- I used to believe that at the beach town where we spent the summer, they took the sidewalks in for the winter.— Missy
- When I was a child I used to belive that if I put on cardboard wings I could fly like a bird.Anon
- I believed that if I swallowed my phlegm I would die. I spent hours spitting it out into the toilet.— chunky munky
- In kindergarden my friend told me that there were 24 hours in the day and 15 hours in the night.— Cari
- We told our little sister that she had a long bushy tail and she fully believed us for ages!!Anon