If I loved something it would come back to life. I was holding a junebug, and it wasn't moving. My mom told me it was dead, but it was only cold. I had warmed it up, and revived it. It flew away, and I thought it was because I had loved it.
A childhood belief about creepy crawlies
others believed things like this
- When I was a child I used to believe stars were the dead people who we loved— Anaïs
- I used to believe that if you put salt on a dead fly it would make the fly come back to life.— Cody
- I used to believe that a wake was something you go to to try to bring the dead person back to life.Anon
- I used to think watering dead flowers would bring them back to life.— Natasha
- I used to think that you could bring dead flowers back to life if you watered them.Anon
- I used to believe the dead flew up to heaven.— Pierre, a French student in eighth grade