When I was little, my cousin told me that if you got a cut or something and you were bleeding, if you sucked the blood it would recycle into your body.
A childhood belief about being ill

others believed things like this
- I used to think that instead of bones and blood and tissue that you body was made up of tuna.— m.n
- My cousin's mom told my cousin that pop makes you short. He probably believed it.— Molly
- when I was young, I heard that blood had iron in it. I thought blood was red because it was rusty.— Hunter
- When I was in Kindergarten I was told if I picked my nose my nose will go into eternal bleeding— Sam
- My dad once told me when i was about 7 or 8 that if i watched too much t.v., i would be sucked into the tv.Anon
- someone told me that if u go to the bathroom on the toielt you would get sucked inn..— terrified child