my sister in law used to believe that there were dead birds in the hot water tank , so that when she was brushing her teeth she had to use the cold water or the dead birds would come out of the tap and get her
A childhood belief about around the house

others believed things like this
- I didn't think you could put out a fire with hot water - only cold water would do.— Katti Pytt
- When I was very young, I assumed that false teeth were taken from dead people's teethAnon
- I used to believe that hot water was red and cold water was blue.Anon
- at the age of seventeen my sister thought another name for a pigeon hole was a birds nest.— Sophie
- 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 flies were little birds!— unforgiv3n