My mother was under the belief for ages that if you went into Arcades by the sea or whatever, there were big men in there who would inject you with heroin, and you would become an addict. What a nice thing to be told by your mother...
A childhood belief about excursions

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that salt would dry up all of my blood because my mother told me so.— Charlotte H
- My mother told me when I was young that thunder was from God bowling!— K.G.
- Once my mother told me that if i ate 2 apples in a day, i would automatically get diahrreah!Anon
- My mother always told me that thunder came from clouds colliding with each other.— Martijn
- i told my mother that sex was when two people get naked and tell ghost stories.— linds
- My mother told me that if I kept sucking my thumb I would grow another one out the side of the first one.Anon