i read something in a magazine as a kid about spontaneous combustion that really worried me. the article said it was more likely to happen when it was dry outside. it also said something about how people who spontaneously combusting sometimes completely disappearing with only a few ashes and possibly their singed or melted shoes left behind.
an old lady who lived behind us used to sleep out on a screened-in porch during the spring and summers. for some reason i thought that since she was sleeping outside and spending so much time outside that she was more susceptible to spontaneously combusting. every time i went to her house i was a little afraid of finding only some charred shoes on her porch.
A childhood belief about people
others believed things like this
- When I was a child I used to be afraid of clowns because they used to have very big shoes— LIZA
- I believed that Reindeer loved popcorn, and so I would cook a bag and scatter it on the porch.— Popcornsanta
- I have a cousin who thought he could run faster when he got new shoes .. Anon
- I used to think that it was against the law to drive a car without shoes on. It isn't— Pamela
- Red shoes make you run faster. — Ann B.
- i use to beleive that horseraddish came from horses shoesAnon