when i was around the age of 6 i thought there were miniature men in the toilet that would crawl up the drain and pinch me if i sat on the toilet to long without actually going. then when i got a little older i started to realize that there was no such thing as mini people, so then i thought that there were giant rats that would crawl up the drains and bite me!
A childhood belief about fear of

others believed things like this
- i used to believe that scoripons could crawl up your toilet and pull you in.
No thanks to my big brother!— Alexandra - I used to believe that if I sat on the toilet too long a snake would come up and bite me.— Cheesemonkey
- I used to believe that there were lobsters in the toilet and if I didn't look they would come up and pinch me.— Traumatized
- When I was 8 I thought a spider lived in the toilet and would bite me if I sat on it.— Mike
- I thought there was a beaver living in the toilet that would bite me if I wasn't ever vigilant. — Camille
- I thought that toilet paper was bread and by puting it it the toilet i was feeding the ducks at the bottem.— Gringo