When I was growing up, we always said the blessing before a meal. If we started eating before the blessing, I thought the food would be poisoned because God hadn't blessed it yet. I don't know how I survived all those unblessed snacks!
A childhood belief about prayers
others believed things like this
- I was told when I was little that eating too much salt on your food would "dry up your blood".Anon
- I'm autistic, and I used to believe taking some of my sister's food while she was eating it was sharing.Anon
- If you bit the end of a pen of pencil you would be poisoned by the lead or ink. Anon
- I used to believe hampsters were miniature kittens and that when they bit me i would be poisoned.— Dylan McDonald
- I used to think that Serial killers were people who poisoned cheerios.— Ashley
- I believed serial killers were people who poisoned cereal to kill others.— Matthew