I used to believe when people are put in their graves after death that they either went to heaven or hell. If they went to hell then the devil would pull a cord from under the grave and they would just fall straight down to hell into a fire pit.
A childhood belief about afterlife

others believed things like this
- i thought when you flushed, it went down to hell and that's what the devil fed the people in he..— Barb.
- I used to think that if I told even one little whhite lie, I would go straight to hell.— Debbie
- I used to believe that the heat from the furnace came from hell, and that it was a straight drop there.Anon
- I used to believe that if you said hell 50 times you went to hell— a big boff
- I thought that "heck" was a less horrible version of hell for people who were only KIND OF evil.— Oizys
- I thought that if you wore the colour red, you would go yo hell. — Tone