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I used to believe that, by moving their branches from one side to another, trees made wind.
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Being from the Hudson Valley/Catskills region of New York, we were always told that a bad thuderstorm was Rip Van Winkle bowling!
this happened when i was quite small. it was during the rainy season when i asked my cousin (who wasn't really too old either) what exactly caused lightning. my cousin who had his own scientific beliefs told me that lightning was caused by god who was was sitting there above and clicking our photographs. needless to say whenever lightning struck, me and my other cousins would jump up and down hoping our's would be the best picture.
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I used to believe if it was raining in the town I lived in then it was raining everywhere in the world
Watching the "Wizard of OZ" as a child made me fearful of the wind. Everytime it blew I got scared out of my mind. I still get a little frightened whenever the wind blows to this day, but nothing like as a child.
I used to believe that wind came from the earth turning faster than usaul. So I thought I was really smart because I could figure out which way the world was turning.
When I was growing up in Hawaii I had never seen snow -- except in picture books about snowy days and folded paper cutouts of snowflakes in school. As a result I was convinced that snowflakes were each as big as your hand, and that kids on the mainand spent all their time comparing them to see if any two were ever exactly alike.
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I thought that if you walk outside and you see your breathe then that means your brethe smells and I would go inside and brush them.
When I was a child I used to believe...
...that when it snowed a lot, like over 8 inches, and the snow collected on the lawns, I would look at it and just know that the lawn wasn't there anymore...it was all just snow now...and if I dared walk on it, I would fall right through...fall and fall and fall, no bottom! Once my sister pushed me onto the "bottomless" lawn and I screamed bloody murder till my Dad came and picked me up, has was shovelling, so he took a moment and shovelled me right up, and I was safe again. Whew, it was a close call I tell ya!
I habe been believed you can get on the cloud.
The clouds used to make a terrible noise sometimes as they moved overhead. I thought they were grinding against each other. It was very loud because the clouds were so big.
But it was just the noise of planes... which look so small when you look at them in the sky that I didn't believe it when I was first told.
I used to think that the numbers next to the cities on the weather map we codes which described a particular weather configuration. It took me a while to realise it was actually just the temperature. I over complicated some things as a child...
Quote from my dad: "If it rains while the sun is shining it means the devil is beating his wife behind the door". I *still* don't know what it means.
i used to think when it is raining, God is urinating. When it's snowing, God's pooping.
When I was a sprog, I used to think that Rainbows were painted in the sky by magic fairies
My dad used to go and shovel the driveway, and when he came back, he had lollypops. He insisted that they were "snow pops", and they fell in the wintertime. It took me a surprisingly long time to stop believing that. A part of me wishes I still did believe it.
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My dad told me that in Florida, snow is orange.
If you stepped on a Beetle, it would rain.
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Rain contained snail eggs...mmmm
I used to believe…
That when God emptied a bath it rained.
Also that raining "cats and dogs" actually rained cats and dogs.
I used to believe that when it rained God was peeing on the world.