I used to believe that we had to be really quiet when we went mushroom hunting. Otherwise the mushrooms would hide. (My Dad told us this to keep us in line) I think it was jr high biology when I learned the truth.
A childhood belief about plants

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that if you stepped on a mushroom it would rain. Anon
- I used to think if a tornado sucked up a poisonous mushroom, it would die.— Will
- My brother used to tell me that the squidgy bits in mushroom soup were owl guts!— Kirsten
- I used to think that mushrooms were meat.Anon
- i used to believe that if i ate mushrooms they would grow on me— gwen
- I used to believe mushrooms were a meat.— Lee Ann