if you stepped on a crack you married a rat, and tho it was not true i still would not step on any cracks on the pavement!
A childhood belief about in the street

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that if you stepped on the cracks of the pavement, a bear would jump up and eat you.— Nina
- If you step on the cracks in tiles when walking through a street, fairies will die.— Maddie
- That if I stepped on a crack on a sidewalk that I would get abducted by aliensAnon
- When I was a kid, I used to believe that if I stepped on a bug, it would step on me in the other world.— classroom 43
- When I was a kid, I used to believe that if I stepped on a bug, it would step on me in the other world.
Anon - I used to believe that dirt roads just needed to be swept (to reveal the pavement underneath). — KSAM