When I was about 4 years old, one of my classmates asked our preschool teacher about her parents. She told us that her parents had died, so they were in a cemetary. She said that sometimes she would go and visit them in the cemetary. I only had the vaguest idea of what happened when people died, so somehow I got the notion that my teachers' parents were just...stored...in glass coffins, so that when she went to visit them in the cemetary she could literally see their dead bodies (perfectly preserved, of course). Years later, watching Snow White again as an adult, I realized that I must have gotten this notion from Snow White and her glass coffin.
A childhood belief about people
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that the world, Earth, was enclosed in glass, like one of those snow globes.— G
- When I was a kid I thought Mary had a little lamb whose FLEAS were white as snow.— jen
- Brown or otherwise non-white snow was snowman poop. My kids believe it too!— Dellio
- I used to believe that when people died, they flew to heaven in their coffins.— PikachuGirl123
- I used to think you could drive to heaven to visit your friends and relatives who had died before....— wombat
- i was convinced that snow was pink, i was devastated the first i saw real snow.Anon