I used to think that, at the end of every century (and thus, at the beginning of each new one), a giant shooting star crossed the sky. That was the way people learnt it was already a new century.
A childhood belief about general
others believed things like this
- i used to believe when you died you went to heaven and played sale of the century!!!!Anon
- I used to believe that sunflowers would try to kill people by shooting poisonous seeds at people.— jen
- I used to believe that when people die, they turn into a star.— Allan
- I used to believe that the visible rays of the sun were beaming people up to heaven. like in star trek.Anon
- I thought that the star that Mary and Joseph followed was called Yonder, as in 'following Yonder star."— Kairow
- That an undertow was a giant toe under the water that grabbed people and pulled them under.— mikita Jones