My friend told me that there were knives in the toilet that chopped up anything that went into it, and after she told me that, I was afraid that I was somehow going to fall into the toilet and get my foot chopped off.
A childhood belief about fear of

others believed things like this
- I used to think that being fired meant they set you on fire.
Or they just chopped off your head.Anon - I was a little Catholic girl, and I used to believe that deviled ham was chopped up devils.— Camille, Palo Alto, CA
- I used to think that serial killers chopped their victims up into little pieces and eat them with their cerealAnon
- I used to believe that if I didn't jump off the escalator in time I would be chopped up like mince.— Jodie
- I thought the airport was a place that you get chopped into pieces in order to go to outer space! lol!!!— I don't know why you get chopped...
- I use to think that garlic was green in garlic butter until I found out that is was chopped parsley :)— Kellie