When i was a kid, my mother told me that if you stepped on a sliver of glass, even a tiny one, it would get into your blood stream, flow into your heart, and kill you.
Broken glass still freaks me out, and if i break something glass, i clean the entire room top to bottom.
A childhood belief about around the house

others believed things like this
- The song called heart of glass mixed me up as a kid. I heard "Heart and ass". — oops
- My cousin once told me that glass was made from ground up beetles, and I believed her! — benjymous
- I used to believe that CD's were made of glass, until I learnt otherwise.Anon
- if you broke the glass on the tv, the cartoons could come out, or you could go in there with themAnon
- I used to believe that if I broke the glass on the tv screen, I could go into the tv show...— Karyne
- i used to think bugs could sting you through closed glass windows.Anon