Things you believed as children....

Oh, and thunder was the Angels moving the piano in heaven.

I was told that thunder was God moving the furniture around. It was supposed to calm me down but I just got cross with God for making so much noise!

Father Xmas and the tooth fairy
I was told others but didn't believe them e.g. babies under bushes

I always thought how wonderful that people could be so helpful when I was young and heard the phrase on the TV, helping police with their enquiries.

Omg! I've just got to 60 and it has never occurred to me that the little piggy could be going any where other than shopping ???

I thought the moon changed shape, so when you saw the half moon that was it’s complete shape. I was a teenager before I realised it was an orb and it was in the sun’s shadow.
Only last year I found out why pirates have an eye patch. Not because they fight each other. It’s because they removed it when they went below deck to see in the dark quickly with the patched eye. Mind was blown with that one.

My Dad told me that he was such a good little boy when he was small that he never got told off, and I believed him. I later met an elderly chap who had known my Dad as a child, who soon blew that story out of the water!

GrandmasueUK

I thought you could choose how many babies you could have when you got pregnant. I wanted triplets to start with, followed by twins.

I have also just been shocked at the little piggy at market scenario. I never even thought about anything but shopping either. ?

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As a child I thought that the line ( from The House That Jack Built) here is the dog that worried the cat that killed the rat etc
Meant that the cat was a bit worried by the dog being there.

I also thought cats were female and dogs male - you're not the only one Lucca! Until I was around 14 or so I really believed boys had periods too, it was the result of something I heard my mother say to another mum about her son.

I thought that people died in order of age...that the oldest person in each family died first, then the next eldest etc, down to the youngest.

So I told my grandmother that she would die first [just to cheer her up!] and me last. She said 'Not necessarily'. That shocked me and I had to have a rethink. Then felt really sad.

I was about 5 when I said it...hadn't understood about illness, disability and disease, war etc. I thought everyone was born fit and well, were always healthy and died of old age.

I’m so so embarrassed about this one. But I’m going to admit to it. Up until my late 40’s I thought blood is just sloshing around in our bodies. Because if your arm gets cut off, blood pours out. I knew it was in veins but thought it also sloshed around all the gaps and it always puzzled me as to why it doesn’t just fall out of our ears and mouths. So embarrassed but I’ve got that off my chest now.

Oh and up until a few months ago I thought that Bicester was pronounced as spelt…

Vintager that's really interesting and of course so
true. Just googled it myself.

To this day l worry about my arm or leg hanging over the side of the bed. The monster may get me.
I'm in my 60s. ?

Noooo?
Another one who has always thought that the little piggy went shopping....

Cruel revelation?

missingmarietta

I thought that people died in order of age...that the oldest person in each family died first, then the next eldest etc, down to the youngest.

So I told my grandmother that she would die first [just to cheer her up!] and me last. She said 'Not necessarily'. That shocked me and I had to have a rethink. Then felt really sad.

I was about 5 when I said it...hadn't understood about illness, disability and disease, war etc. I thought everyone was born fit and well, were always healthy and died of old age.

I went for dinner in a multigenerational household. The family's 5 year old daughter was going round the table asking everyone's age, then when she got to the granny she said "When are you going to die." Thankfully granny was hard of hearing and 5 year old was gagged before she was able to repeat the question! Clearly a common misconception at that age.

My daughter is laughing at me for telling her about the piggy going to market. She says she always knew why this little pig went there. A distressing revelation to me at nearly 80.

I too believed that swallowing pips would cause appendicitis.

I also believed all the nonsense I was told at the convent where my parents thought I would be well educated to be a ‘good Catholic girl’. Until I grew up and discovered I was neither well educated nor a good girl.

Embarassingly I'm someone else who thought the little piggy went shopping! I'd never thought anything else until reading this thread!

My father told us that there was a man called a ‘geolobolist’ and it was his job to collect goldfish farts to be used as the bubble for spirit levels, I believed that for years ???‍♀️

Wow these are brilliant And also sometimes sad.

Very sorry for ruining the piggies!

I always wondered (and I was an Adult when it was explained to me) why Turf Accountants (I thought they sold land, fields or grass) always had Horses in their shop windows.

VioletSky

Also I learnt that the little piggy didn't go to market to buy groceries...

I'm genuinely shocked by this!
I've always pictured piggy skipping off with a basket on one arm, and a checked neckerchief!

The one with the pirate eyepatch shocked me the most.

I just assumed that pirates liked to poke each other in the eye a lot

That my dog had gone to live on a farm.

Oh nooo I always thought the piggy went to market to go shopping until I read this thread
I always thought babies came out of your tummy button
Spent years worrying how on earth that could happen !