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What were you told - and believed - as a child

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SueDonim Wed 13-Jul-16 13:30:08

Ditto the thunder and the apple pips. My grandad also told me that farm animals that lived on hillsides had two long legs on one side and two short legs on the other to stop them falling over,

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dorsetpennt Wed 13-Jul-16 13:19:12

My mother told me that thunder was the clouds banging together. I told my daughter the same thing when she was about three years old. To her embarrassment when she was seventeen she mentioned this to a boyfriend as she still believed it. She was furious with me when she arrived home.

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pollyperkins Wed 13-Jul-16 12:57:45

I was told thunder was caused by clouds banging together.

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sunseeker Wed 13-Jul-16 12:43:55

An aunt once told me that the moon was the sun's reflection and I believed that for a number of years! Another was that if you swallowed an apple pip an apple tree would grow in your stomach, letting a baby see itself in a mirror would cause it to have teething trouble (no idea where that one came from!). Any odd things you were told as a child?

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