When I was very young (I don't even remember what age) I was told by my mother that when you died, your soul left your body and went to heaven. Somehow I got the idea that souls looked exactly like candy canes, and floated out of your mouth once you were put into your coffin.
A childhood belief about people
others believed things like this
- When I was quite young, I believed that one's coffin was really a spaceship to take them to heaven.— Sunshine
- When i was younger i believed that when you died your soul use to go into a monkeys body— Ríoghnach
- When I asked my mother how Elvis died, she told me that he ate too much candy. — Katie B
- When i was little i thought that the soul was a physical part of your body that looked like shell pastaAnon
- I was told that if one doesn't cover their mouth when yawning that their soul would escape.Anon
- I used to believe that the rays of sun coming through clouds were how God led newly dead souls into heaven.— Jenni