My brother, Myles Kidd , had a mad childhood belief that if you touched lichen, it made your skin peel off!?!
He got really upset if he saw the stuff.
A childhood belief about plants
others believed things like this
- I used to believe if i touched a cameleon i would change the color of my skin. — Sophie
- I used to belief sloths lived in trees outside my childhood home. My older sister told me so.Anon
- When was 5-6 I used to think that leather was made from hippo skin.— Richard Davies
- I used to believe that black olives were made out of whale skin.— Troyson
- I used to believe that a football ref's flag was a banana peel.Anon
- I used to believe that if you drove over a banana peel the car would slide off the road.Anon