i used to believe that if you walked past a funeral parlour or a church when a funeral was going on, you had to hold your breath and cross your fingers or you would die with a red cross on your hand. The end.
A childhood belief about people

others believed things like this
- when I saw a sign with a deer on it I always thought deer had to cross the street by it. like a cross walk— only me
- If you hold your breath and make a wish under a highway tunnel it will come true....I still hold my breath :)— aj
- When you saw a funeral go by, you had to grab a button on your shirt.Anon
- i used to believe that when i was in funeral the person in the casket was just asleep for a while— Edgar
- My mom told me one day that she was going to a funeral. I thought it was a place to buy fruit.— Paulette
- My great grandmother died when I was 9. I didn't go to the funeral because I thought she'd be a skeleton. — Angela