When I was little we all believed that if you fell into quicksand, you would be ok, until the mud reached your nose. Then you would suddenly die.
A childhood belief about people

others believed things like this
- my mom told not to pick my nose because if i fell i would poke my brain.— brent
- When I was young, I honestly believed that I would die before I reached high school. Anon
- When I was little, I believed that slugs fell from the sky because they always came out when it rained.— JoJo
- that sneezes were caused by little pixies crawling up your nose and brushing past your nose hairs— Joanna
- My mother used ot tell me that if I picked my nose the 'Nose Spider' would bite my finger off.— Melanie
- When I was in Kindergarten I was told if I picked my nose my nose will go into eternal bleeding— Sam