When I was very little, I believed that when people said it might "hail", that little Tasmanian Devils would fall from the sky. I thought they were saying it was "helling" outside.
A childhood belief about weather
others believed things like this
- I was a little Catholic girl, and I used to believe that deviled ham was chopped up devils.— Camille, Palo Alto, CA
- My brother used to say, "Hail Mary, Full of Grapes..."Anon
- "Hail Mary, full of grapes, the lord is a tree"— reenie
- My sister told me not to touch hail stones because they were radioactive. — Mary K
- "Hail Mary full of grapes" And "The Fruit Of The Loom, Jesus."— Silly Little Girl
- In the Hail Mary prayer, I used to say 'Bless a dark fowl among women' rather than 'blessed art though'Anon