I used to believe that it was quite possible to make it start pouring rain outside by spilling salt on the ground like the girl on the Morton salt package. I never tried it because I didn't want it to rain!
A childhood belief about salt

others believed things like this
- I thought that veruca salt was green salt— Ninny
- I used to think that salt grew on salt trees.Anon
- My dad thought when he was little, rain was caused by army guys in the clouds with rain guns. — Daughter of the Weird
- I used to believe I could control the weather by singing rain rain go away or blowing the clouds away.— Shannon
- When I was little my sister told me salt was ground up dinosaur bones...I barley ate for a month...— Chandler
- I believed that the rain would melt everything...I was terrified to go outside in the rain! — Cris