As a child a, I remeber my parents, grandparents, aunts and uncles telling me that if I crossed my eyes that that one day they could get stuck that away. They also said that it was permenant unless a horse was going to kick me.
A childhood belief about eyes

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that all my aunts were related to my mother and all my uncles were related to my father.— Mandy
- I used to beleive if i crossed my eyes they'd stay like that.. haha— L Bennett
- If you cross your eyes, they will get stuck like that.Anon
- if you cross your eyes and there's a gush of wind, you'll get stuck like that !!— Olivier
- I used to think that all people closed their eyes and stuck their tongue out when they died.Anon
- I used to believe that everyone had the same middle name as me... Elizabeth.
(even my uncles)— K.O.