You know when you get a cut; you bleed. I was around five and I knew this to be true. I figure if skin bleeds so does your hair when you get it cut. Whenever I got my hair cut, I would cry and yell and fight so I would not my haircut so I would not bleed to death.
A childhood belief about hair

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that if and when you got your hair cut it would all bleed— JC
- I used to believe that when I started menstruating, I would bleed to death from losing too much blood.— Debbie
- I used to believe that if I cut my dolls hair it would grow back just like mine did after a haircut. — diamond girl
- after my mom told me I had strawberry blonde hair - I used to look for the strawberries after I got a haircut— pearpod
- I used to think that everybody's hair was black and if you had blond hair, you dyed your hair.— ~_~CoolKid93_~_
- When I was about 10 I used to believe that if you burped too much it would make your liver bleed— Lenny