When I was about 5 a friend of mine told me that the tufted grass that you see on roadside embankments was the hair of dead people that had been buried in the hillside.
A childhood belief about people
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that a street sign that read "Dead End" meant that there were dead people buried there.Anon
- I thought that dead people were stuffed INSIDE their gravestone instead of buried in a coffin.— Sam Shiels
- I use to think mountains were dead dinosaurs and grass grew over it.— Tara
- I used to believe that falling leaves were dead butterflies, and I always buried them in the back yeard.— waters
- When I was really young I used to think that dead bodies wouldn't start rotting until they were buried.— Katherine
- My friend's sister believed the lyrics to Gazza's "Fog on the Tyne" were "Fog on the dinasaurs mine all mine"— Suzanne