When we were young my mom told us that if we ever hit our parents, that when we died we would be buried with one hand sticking out the grave, and that a man would come past and whip the hand everyday.
It terrified us for years, until we realised that we would be dead, so like, who cares ?!?
A childhood belief about people
others believed things like this
- that if you stuck out your tongue at your mother, your hand would stick up out of the grave when you died.— Elaine. London
- When I was really young I used to think that dead bodies wouldn't start rotting until they were buried.— Katherine
- I used to think that my right hand wasn't my right hand anymore if I turned around.— Mike
- I used to believe that a street sign that read "Dead End" meant that there were dead people buried there.Anon
- I used to believe that you had to have your eyes closed and your tongue sticking out for you to be dead! — pinkgreencrazy
- I used to believe that the way you knew when people were dead was when their toungue was sticking out. — Geneva