My sister always liked to tell me tails but being five years younger I would always believe her. She once told me that if you pick off a freckle you will bleed to death, that there wasn't anything that could help you and it could never, ever be closed up ... it would be a gruesome death for sure.
A childhood belief about skin

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that when I started menstruating, I would bleed to death from losing too much blood.— Debbie
- My sister told me that jellyfish came out of the shower and sting you to death.— Nick (Alex's brother)
- I used to believe that "Earwigs lived in your ears", scared
me to death for years.— Will Chapman - I used to believe that death come to visit you. — Lesley
- I used to believe that if you bled to death, you'd get flat!— Lisa G
- I used to believe that every death had an autopsy ;-;
I was so dumb as a kid lol— Brii