As a child with nothing to do, my mother would give me a salt shaker and tell me if I could put salt on a bird's tail, I could catch it. I spent many days running around trying to put salt on a bird's tail and never succeeded.
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
- when i was a child (of course)i used to believe that the sea is salty because God throws bags of salt into it.— Kafka
- I used to think that pepper was only used to mark where you'd put the salt.— BK