When I was little, I used to believe that people died from gun shots and deep wounds because the wound was just big enough for the person's soul to get out and fly away. Because of that belief, I had a phobia of getting hurt or cut since 5th grade in fear that my soul might fly away.
A childhood belief about people

others believed things like this
- When i was younger i believed that when you died your soul use to go into a monkeys body— Ríoghnach
- i used to believe that if you slept with cats that they would eat your soul and you would die!!Anon
- I used to believe that your soul was a millimeter thick, right under your skin, and looked exactly like youAnon
- I had the weird superstition that if I let all the bathwater run out it'd suck my soul down with it too.— Dan
- I used to think that lave lamps were the devil coming out of them trying to steel my soul. until i was like 10— Bianca
- i thought that you had like a box or something inside you to hold your soul for the longest time— jill