I use to believe that perana could swim up the drain of the bath tub and eat you! Or at least that is what my sister told me when I was six, right after we watched the movie "Perana". I didn't take a bath for a year(I was stuck taking showers with a plate over the drain)!
A childhood belief about bathrooms

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that once you pulled the plug in the bath a shark would swim out of the drain and eat you.— Amy
- how many us believed you would go down the drain with the bath water? I did!— Amy
- i thought that when you were in the bath you would get sucked down the drain— blake
- I used to think that when I was in the bath I shark lived under the bath and that ig might come up and bite me— ------------
- I used to think that if you take the plug out of the bath it will suck you into the bath— awesome kid
- My uncle told me that if I didn't wash my ears when I took a bath, corn would start going out of them.— Ebod