When I was little, my grandmother told me that if someone sneezed and you did not say "bless you", that their soul would leave their body. This haunted me and I would put my hands above my head whenever I sneezed to "catch my soul". Even as a superstitious teenager, whenever I sneezed and no one "blessed" me, I would raise my hands above my head non-chalantly!
A childhood belief about general
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that "God bless you" was "gableshu," so everytime someone sneezed, I would say "gableshu."— JS
- My older brother told me that everytime you sneezed your lungs would bleed. I believed this until I was 21!— Gem
- I used to think when somebody sneezed you were supposed to say 'Gableshew'.— gablesh
- I used to believe that if you sneezed with your eyes open you would die!— Becky
- I used to think that foreign people coughed and sneezed in a different language.— Even more stupid
- When I was a kid I thought that when tornado/twisters were what happened when God sneezed.— Not In Kansas Anymore