Being born in a highly religious Catholic family, many of my beliefs and fears were centered in religion. I had great difficuly conceptualizing a 'soul'. I suppose I just went for whatever seemed the closest. It was the heel of a shoe. For many years I'd imagined my soul in the shape of a heel of a shoe living inside my chest. I thought when you died it floated out of your mouth with little white wings on each side of it.
A childhood belief about afterlife
others believed things like this
- When I was a child I used to believe that if some shoe was upside down, someone in my family could die.— Camila C.
- i thought that you had like a box or something inside you to hold your soul for the longest time— jill
- I was told that if one doesn't cover their mouth when yawning that their soul would escape.Anon
- When i was younger i believed that when you died your soul use to go into a monkeys body— Ríoghnach
- when I was a kid I used to believe if I left the shoe facing the person would die— milena
- I thought vegetarians couldn't read Chicken Soup for the Soul. — Aretia