When I was little I thought the devil lived in the toilet and if I flushed it he would come out and take me with him. So I would flush and run really fast into the living room. Silly me!
A childhood belief about fear of

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that monsters lived in my toilet and they ate my poop and urine when i flushed the toilet.Anon
- 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 beleve when i was 4 that the flush on the toilet was to wake up toilet monsters.— Millie
- 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 if I flushed the toilet before I showered, I would take a shower in dirty toilet water.— Chris D
- I used to think if I left the toilet seat open my cat would get flushed down the toilet.— G