When I was a wee lad me Mum told me that if I called my sister or anyone a "fool" that I would burn in Hell! For years whenever I heard someone call someone else a "fool" I would think "OOooo you're going to burn in Hell"!
A childhood belief about speaking

others believed things like this
- I was sad for many years because my aunt once told me I would go to hell for farting in church!— Tara
- I used to believe that if you said hell 50 times you went to hell— a big boff
- my sister used to tell me that manhole covers were direct portals to hell.— autumn
- i used to think if i would eat spicy food i would burn and die— Bill
- I used to be terrified of fire-flys because I believed they would burn if they landed on me.— kevin
- i used to think tha if you went outside when it was acid raining the rain would burn holes in your skin— fear of rain