My mother used to tell me that if you sprinkle salt on a bird it couldn't fly. She used to send me out in the yard with a salt shaker as a kid to try to "catch" the birds.
A childhood belief about salt
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that you could catch a bird by putting salt on it's tail— Eli
- I thought that veruca salt was green salt— Ninny
- I used to think that salt grew on salt trees.Anon
- I used to believe that salt would dry up all of my blood because my mother told me so.— Charlotte H
- I used to think that pepper was only used to mark where you'd put the salt.— BK
- Salt is bad tasting sugar.— cobra