When I was 5 I read a book about mummies and my sister told me that live people were made into mummies and then they had to live like that forever. I think we both misunderstood the book a little.
A childhood belief about afterlife
others believed things like this
- I use to think that mummies were wrapped in toilet paper.— Glowworm
- I used to believe if you read a book in the dark, you would go blind.— Ellen
- I read in a book that if you ever swallowed toothbrush bristles then you would get appendicitus!— Amy
- In the mid 90's, I used to believe that babies who were born in the year 2000 would live forever.Anon
- I thought that when I got older "they" would invent a cure for death and I could live forever.— wishful thinking
- My sister told me that if you had sweetcorn in your poo, you had six months to live! I cried for weeks — Billy