When I was about 6 we lived in Alaska in an apartment complex. There was a small water hole in the woods behind the apartment building where the kids used to go play. One day I went down there and all the kids were staring at this one kid in the water hole as he was splashing around like he was drowning. I asked why no one would help him and was told that this was a portal the devil used and that the devil had a hold of the kid's legs. So they were all scared to help him. From that point on I thought that all open bodies of water led to the devil and was always scared he was going to grab my feet and pull me down.
A childhood belief about water
others believed things like this
- When i was small i used to think god lived on top of my house and the devil lived right underneath it.— Missuss D
- ***I used to believe that water towers was a place that someone lived and they controlled the water.— C H R I S T E N
- My mum told me that if you eat while you're on the toilet, you're feeding the devil! — Claire
- Grandmother told me if I whistled in the bathroom the devil would come get me because I was whistling for him.— Peanut @ Lake Tawakoni Tx
- My sisters told me, and I still believe, that the 'Hokey Pokey' is the Devil's song.— You shake it all about...
- I was told that if you dropped food on the floor, the devil kissed it. — Teresa