My little brother used to believe that he couldn't touch anything pink, or it would cause an incurable rash where it touched. The only way to prevent the rash would be to "wipe off" the pink with blue ASAP.
A childhood belief about being ill

others believed things like this
- i knew that if you ate beets your urine would turn pink and i thought if it was pink, then you could drink it.— JP
- I thought pink lemonade came from pink lemons.Anon
- I believed that 4 p.m. was pink, and 5 p.m. was blue. I don`t know why.— blue
- I thought pink wafer biscuits would bite me if I touched them. Absolutely no idea why.Anon
- My mum told my brother that beetroot turned your wee pink. To this day he still won't eat it— Monica
- I used to believe that when I got old my red hair would turn pink before it went white.Anon