I was about 6 when my great-grandpa died, but wasn't allowed to go to the funeral. Somehow I came to the conclusion that they must be stringing up the corpse and making it dance around like a marionette. When I saw this happen with Mr. Burns on the Simpsons last year, I almost injured myself from laughing so hard.
A childhood belief about people

others believed things like this
- My great grandmother died when I was 9. I didn't go to the funeral because I thought she'd be a skeleton. — Angela
- When i went to a funeral only a bit of the coffin was open so i thought when u died you turned into a migit.— Andrew
- I thought there was some video games so hard that if you died on them you also died in real life!— Kakuri
- I used to believe that when you have Diarrhoea it burns a second whole in your a*se!!— Pigeon
- I wasn't allowed to cut my nails on a sunday , don't ask me why.— martin
- My nephew refuses to put his tooth under his pillow in case the fairy burns him with her wand.— Nina