When I was little my oldest brother told me that if you whistled at the Northern Light they would come down and take you away.
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I used to believe that if you counted all the stars in the sky, a shooting star would appear and place itself somewhere in my honour just because I had accomplished the task of counting every star in the sky.
i used to believe that people grounded up the deads' bones and what-not and put it in our tap water. Imagine when I was thirsty!
My sister used to think that dandelions made you wet the bed. I used to chase her round the garden with them making her cry.
When I was little I thought smokestacks were cloud machines!
When I was very wee, I used to believe that I could catch the clouds. Every time the fog would come in, I would run outside with my pillow case, desperately trying to catch them. I thought that if I was sucessful, my pillow case would carry me up to the sky and I could live on the clouds.
I used to believe that if you saw the first star of the night and said "Star light, star bright, first star I see tonight, I wish I may, I wish I might, have the wish I wish tonight" your wish would be granted. I thought you could trick it too, pretend that you only saw one star even if you'd seen more.
When I was about three, I used to believe that the rain was caused by Jesus' peeing down on the earth!
When I was younger I used to believe that the moon was made of cheese. I used to want to be an astronaught so I could go to the moon and eat some moon-cheese. I never stopped to think that Wallice and Gromit's 'Grand Day Out' may not actually be true!!
When I was little I asked my grandmother what a certain tree in her yard was called. She said it was a "Crate Myrtle Tree." I thought she said a "Great Turtle Tree." I constantly climbed it looking for tiny baby turtles. To this day I still call it the Turtle Tree even though I know better.
Ok this isn't mine... my sister used to believe that a tornado was a giant potato that came out of the ground. She thought that it would rumble out of the ground and roll over all the houses and things. She was always so scared when someone said that a tornado was coming. She would ask why everyone didn't just stop growing potatoes so then we wouldn't have the problem and no one had any idea what she was talking about. I guess potato and tornado sound the same. LOL
I used to believe that thunder was god playing the drums and lightning was when a lightbulb in gods house burnt out, and it would flash. Then when I got a little oler, I thought that thunder was clouds banging together.
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My sister told me that snow was God's dandruff.
When my son was about 4 he informed me that the little yellow wild flowers growing on the side of the freeway was because somebody spread butter all over the grass the night before.
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When my son was about 4 a tornado hit our area. He said, "Mom, I know why it's called a 'tornado'--- because it 'tore' everything up!"
I used to believe when it thundered that god was moving his furniture around.
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i used to believe when llightning struck the ocean all the fish had died because iif you were in a pool and lightning struck that youd die
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i used to think when it started raining it was god flushing the toilet
until i was about 6, i was completely convinced the moon was made of pudding. i would always try to convince my mom to take me to the moon so i could try the pudding.
When I was a kid I thought that when it thundered it was God going bowling and getting a strike.