I used to believe that the way you knew when people were dead was when their toungue was sticking out.
A childhood belief about animals

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that you had to have your eyes closed and your tongue sticking out for you to be dead! — pinkgreencrazy
- when i was a lil kid i used to think salt was dead lice that people but on there food and i never knew why
— jessica diamond - I used to believe that a street sign that read "Dead End" meant that there were dead people buried there.Anon
- I used to think that when I saw someone on TV whom I knew to be dead , it meant that it was his or her ghost.— Sophie
- I used to think that "cross-eyed" meant that people had X's for eyes, like dead people in cartoons.— Tim
- I used to think dead people are dangerous. — J.G.