When I was little, my brother told me that if I slept with my legs curled up to keep warm, when I woke in the morning I'd be stuck like that for good; I assumed this was true, so every night I made myself straighten out my legs into the cold place at the bottom of the bed...
A childhood belief about sleeping

others believed things like this
- when i was little i always asked my mom if my aunt had ant legs or people legs.— kelly
- I used to think a female daddy-long-legs was called a "mummy-long-legs".Anon
- I used to believe that molasses were made by grasshoppers rubbing their back legs together.— Valerey Lavergne
- My father told me that Frenchmen had three legs.Anon
- I used to believe that if I wet my legs in the sea I would become a mermaid.
— andrea - that pickles were octopus legsAnon