When I was a child I used to believe that there was a witch waiting outside my window at night, and she would be able to come and get me only if she could see my toes. So I would be awake for a long time, avoiding to sleep in the dark when everyone else were sleeping because I was afraid that, if I slept, I could put my feet out of the sheets without noticing it and therefore having to face the ugly woman... Well, the monsters under my bed also had that "seeing the toes" condition to be able to harm me.
A childhood belief about witches
others believed things like this
- When I was little, I thought that if I slept with socks on, my toes would grow together.— Laura
- I, to this day, believe that when I can't sleep at night it means I'm awake in someone else's dreams... — Turner
- i used to believe that peas were toes — DJ
- I use to cover my head at night because I thought monsters would give me a bad hair cut while I was sleeping!— Amy
- I used to belive that ballet dancers had flat toes, so when they put on their shoes they would fit right.— Jazzy
- When I was little, I had tiny toes and beleived that ducks mistook them for kernels of corn and eat them.— Seguin