My parents used to scare my little sister and I half to death by saying that if we weren't in bed by 8pm then Wee Willie Winkie would come knocking at our letterbox....we never knew who he was or what he'd do, but hell we were scared!
A childhood belief about general
others believed things like this
- I used to think that if you were scared "half to death" that you only had one scare left before you died.— Bush Hiddenofsky
- Until I was about 12 years old I believed that homeless people were made up by my parents to scare me.— Angela B.
- I used to believe that "Earwigs lived in your ears", scared
me to death for years.— Will Chapman - I believed one of the greatest dangers you could face was quick sand. I was scared to death of it.Anon
- Before I knew about death, I used to think people turned back into babies again after they got old. Anon
- my sister used to tell me that manhole covers were direct portals to hell.— autumn