I used to and still believe that if I look at fungi or go near it for too long, the fungi will make my brain melt! I don't know why I think this but now I try and avoid fungi whenever I can!
A childhood belief about plants
others believed things like this
- If you stood in front of the fire for too long your spine would melt!— Helen, Cumbria
- I thought my brain would explode if it was in the sun too long— Heather
- The bus needed coins to run; it would melt them down and use them as fuelAnon
- I used to believe that if you turned the thermastat temperature above 70 degrees that everything would melt.Anon
- When I was around seven years-old, my friend and I put a rock in a microwave and thought it would melt.— Lars
- My mother told me that if I lay too close to our electric radiator (heater) my brains would melt.
— robyn c.