I used to believe that once you flushed the toliet the Rice Crispy Elves would come out of the toliet and attack you and force you to live with them in the sewer.
A childhood belief about fear of

others believed things like this
- I used to believed that the sign on houses 'to let' was a toliet and that there was lots of them!— Grace Lyon New Addington
- that bathroom tap water was recycled "potty" water from the toliet. — livingdeadgirl
- My Nan used to say that if you ate rice pudding every day you would live till 100.— Jayne
- my brother told me rice crispies were really fish eggs we gave to the goldfish. I never ate rice crispies.— johnboy
- That the "glitter" in crispy snow was angels— HH
- Someone told my that rice was really spider eggs. I still don't look at it the same. Anon