my mother told me that thunder was the clouds bumping together and they only LOOKED like they were light and fluffy but the were really solid like dumplings.
A childhood belief about thunder and lightning

others believed things like this
- My mother always told me that thunder came from clouds colliding with each other.— Martijn
- When I was a child, I used to believe that clouds were solid and that you could walk on themAnon
- I was told as a child that the sound of thunder was from angels bowling in the clouds.— Patty, NY
- My mother told me when I was young that thunder was from God bowling!— K.G.
- I think thunder is the clouds fighting and bashing eachother and lightning is fire balls from the sun.— Crazy Cowgirl MADI
- i used to believe that dumplings grew in the gardenAnon