When I was little my mom always told me not to sit on the toilet seat in a public restroom. She said that pigs go to the bathroom in here and that is wasn't clean. For the longest time I couldn't go to the bathroom in a public place because pigs went there.
A childhood belief about fear of

others believed things like this
- My grandma told me she used to think pigs came out of tree stumps.Anon
- My mother told me that if I picked my nose it would turn into a pigs trotter!— Lynne S :o)
- sheep were wooly pigs— CJ
- i used to believe that sausages were to pigs as eggs are to hens— stuart swanston
- I believed that pigs could actually fly. I'm 13 and found out this year that they can't.— Boy I'm Blonde
- My dad used to tell me that "smoked" bacon came from pigs that had been fed on a diet of kippers !!!— Tony . Newcastle on Tyne