I am the only girl (now a woman) between two brothers. I was once told by my older brother that flies were raisins with wings. Believing him, I would chase flies whenever I saw them, try to catch them, and eat them! Fortunately, I was too young to be coordinated enough to actually catch flies.
A childhood belief about general
others believed things like this
- My dad told me that raisins were the dead flies from the windowsill— Kellie
- I use to believe that dragon flies and fire flies were fairies— lady eberly
- i used to think raisins were inside out flies. i still can't eat them to this day. :)— booga
- I used to believe that flies were called "bloody flies"!— Angelface
- I used to think that raisins were dead flies. I only recently started to eat them again.— Toinette'
- when i was young, when some 1 said time flies, i wondered why there wernt clocks flying aroun— Necrid