When I was little, my older brother and I used to cut weeds with sticks all the time, and this white juice would ooze from the broken stems. One day I cut myself outside playing, and he told me that weed juice would make it heal faster and take the pain away. The placebo worked, and I believed this until I was 11. Before then, I managed to pass the 'secret' on to my friends, who believed it and told their friends, and so on. Who knows where this is now...
A childhood belief about plants
others believed things like this
- I thought that grape juice was called "great juice". Anon
- my grandfather told me that soy sauce was bug juice.Anon
- My Mum told me she invented skipping and I believed her and told all my friends - still living that one downAnon
- that if you had fun, time would literally pass by faster— paul
- I used to think that apple juice was beer and I'd drink it all the time and pretend to be drunk.— Dee
- My older brother told me that everytime you sneezed your lungs would bleed. I believed this until I was 21!— Gem