when i was a jewish kid growing up, at the age of about 10, i heard from one of my friends that if you swore, you would go to hell and be with the devil. one of my other friends informed me that the devil went around and cheated people out of souls, and then kept them to work for him. well, i always had a spark of perverse evil in me, so i figured if i went to hell, i could find a way to talk the devil into letting me work with him and i thought it would be so exciting to collect souls with him. i had never sworn before in my life, but after that i started sweraing A LOT and made it my goal in life to go to hell and assist the devil when i died. i'm still working for it!!!
A childhood belief about swearing

others believed things like this
- i thought when you flushed, it went down to hell and that's what the devil fed the people in he..— Barb.
- I had tinnitus as a child and used to believe that it was the sound that the devil made when he was closeby— Helen
- I thought that "heck" was a less horrible version of hell for people who were only KIND OF evil.— Oizys
- I thought that Devil's food cake was invented by Satanists!— Dietrich Corby
- My mum told me that if you eat while you're on the toilet, you're feeding the devil! — Claire
- I used to believe that when it thundered, it meant the devil was beating his wife.— Carol