When I was little my mother told my sisters and I that if we used deodorant we would stop breathing because it would plug up our pores and cause suffocation.
A childhood belief about general

others believed things like this
- I used to think that the river police were there to stop naughty people from pulling the plug out.— Linda
- If you left a plug socket on with no plug in all the power would run outAnon
- my mother was able to stop me from sucking my thumb by telling me it would rust and fall off!!— lv
- My sisters once told me if I blinked too much I would get cancer.
How mean... D:— Budster - My sisters told me, and I still believe, that the 'Hokey Pokey' is the Devil's song.— You shake it all about...
- My grandma told me and my sisters that the boogie man lived in her basement and if we cried he would get us.— Paulette