I used to believe that if you talked after saying your bedtime prayers the prayers would be null and void and you would have to say them all over again.
A childhood belief about prayers

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that when I said my prayers, "God Bless..." meant please keep burglars awayAnon
- I used to believe that elevators were gates to other worlds and the void.Anon
- i used to beleive that everyone in the world went to sleep at 8:00pm (my bedtime)— yvette yasui
- i used to think when my parents talked that "so and so" was actually a person.— karmely cullen
- When I was little I used to believe that dogs talked to each other when barking.Anon
- I used to believe that when we went to bed at night, all the animals in our house talked to each other. Anon