I was told that if you touched a dead person they would reach out and grab you. It wasn't until I was a teenage that I realized it wasn't true, but I still don't want to test it.
A childhood belief about people
others believed things like this
- When I was 4 or so I believed if you touched a dead person you'd die too.— anonymous
- I used to think that if you ate cat food you would die. I found out it wasn't true
— Bob#4 - i used to believe if i was in a plane, i'd be able to reach out, grab part of a cloud and eat it— BOXXXY
- My sister just recently realized that the lyric "more than a woman" wasn't 4 letter woman!— Anne
- I thought that when you went over a speedbumb it was a dead person who had been hit by a car!Anon
- I used to believe that a wake was something you go to to try to bring the dead person back to life.Anon