When I was very young we had a vacation cabin in the middle of nowhere. No electricity, no running water, and an awfully smelly outhouse. My mother once told me not to sit too long or I might get hemmorhoids. For many years after I thought hemmorhoids were little animals that would jump out of the "hole" and bite my behind!
A childhood belief about fear of

others believed things like this
- i used to believe lava and water made electricityAnon
- I once told a friend of mine that if you held in a smelly burp, it'd turn into a fart. She believed me.Anon
- My Mother used to tell me only the good die young and I would live to be 100+ years old because I was bad.— William
- When I was young my mother told me that old people kind of shrink. I thought that they shrunk into babies.— dont know
- I used to believe that if I sat on the toilet too long a snake would come up and bite me.— Cheesemonkey
- when i was in kindergarten i believed that abe lincoln was buried in a cabin and not a coffin— lisa