As a young boy, I was told by my parents that a type of ghost roamed the streets at night. This ghost was split in half at the waist. The upper part would roam the streets looking for victims and the only way to stop him is to find the lower half and pour salt so that he could not reconnect. I always carried salt!
A childhood belief about ghosts

others believed things like this
- I thought that veruca salt was green salt— Ninny
- i used to believe that if there were bombings, that the world will split in half.. — kins
- I used to think that salt grew on salt trees.Anon
- I loved watching the cartoon Casper the Friendly Ghost and wondered why the Holy Ghost never got his own show.— Robert
- I thought the Holy Ghost was the ghost of the Virgin Mary.— Texas granny
- I used to believe that your belly button was what held your top half to your bottom half...— Debelouwho