when I was little i got a cut and my big brother told me that if I lost too much blood that I would die so i held the cut over a cup and waited until it stopped bleeding and drank the like ounce of blood that had collected in the bottom. eww gross
A childhood belief about being ill

others believed things like this
- We were always told that if we drank vinegar our blood would dry up— Mike B. London
- I used to believe that if you drank vinegar that your blood would dry up.— Emily Hughes
- I used to think that if you drank too much milk and had a nosebleed, your blood would be white.— Tina
- when I was young, I heard that blood had iron in it. I thought blood was red because it was rusty.— Hunter
- I used to believe that guns shot out blood because everytime somebody shot a gun in a movie you saw blood.Anon
- I used to believe that salt would dry up all of my blood because my mother told me so.— Charlotte H