I used to have this belief that if I let my feet hang over the side of the bed while I slept that gnomes under the bed would cut off a toe to keep for their collection.
A childhood belief about under my bed

others believed things like this
- When i was little, i believed that if you slept with socks on, your feet would fall off.Anon
- I used to think the song "Hang on sloopy" was "hang on snoopy"— gina
- i used to believe it was okay to have a booger collection. my mom did not agree— Michelle
- I thought you were supposed to take money out of the collection at church.— Wangchuk
- My parents said that gnomes tied knots in my hair while I was sleeping. I had insomnia for years.— Daria
- When I got my feet measured by the electronic machine, I thought that the machine will squash my feet!— Helen