my uncle had a velvet painting of a devil sitting on the toilet in his bathroom, and my cousins used to tell me if i stared at it too long it would come to life,i remember keeping my head down everytime i used that bathroom.
A childhood belief about fear of

others believed things like this
- Grandmother told me if I whistled in the bathroom the devil would come get me because I was whistling for him.— Peanut @ Lake Tawakoni Tx
- I used to think that your cousins are your cousins only until they're 21, then they become your aunt,or uncle!— AMILA
- i used to be scared to use the bathroom becuase i believed something lived in the toilet.— robert allen freeman the fourth
- When my favorite Uncle died, I thought if I stared at him in his coffin he would open his eyes and be alive.— Cindy
- i used to think if you stared long enough at the sun (until it looked blue) you could kill it— sean
- I used to think that if I stared at the sun for a long time, I could make day turn to night.— Big J