my grandad used to tell me that if i put my fingers in plug sockets they'd bite me. i believed him and i thought that little people lived in there.
A childhood belief about around the house
others believed things like this
- My sister told me that if I picked my nose there were snail creatures inside of it that would bite my fingers.Anon
- If you left a plug socket on with no plug in all the power would run outAnon
- When I was 8 I thought a spider lived in the toilet and would bite me if I sat on it.— Mike
- I used to think that the river police were there to stop naughty people from pulling the plug out.— Linda
- I believed that I had a fake right big toe, having lost my real one in the plug holder (thanks Helen!)— Mike
- I used to believe that crocodiles lived in the toilet and would bite my butt when I had to go to the loo.— Oz