When I was maybe 4 maybe even younger, I noticed all of the birds prancing around in my front yard. I decided that I wanted one of them...So I ask my dad how I could catch one, because everytime I ran up to them the flew away. He told me to throw salt on them. (?? who knew) So everyday I would take a salt shaker and attempt catching birds by throwing salt on them. Years later, I ask my daddio why in the world he told me to throw salt, of all things, on the bird. He said he figured if I could get close enough to a bird to to throw salt on it, then i was close enough to catch it. lol, silly, but hey..makes me smile.
A childhood belief about birds
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 was told that your belly button is where you put salt when you eat apples in bed.— Shurnuff
- when i was little, my mom told me if you ate to much salt, you'd wake up turned into a lamb. — Kristina