I never stepped on cracks on the footpath and always tried to take only one step between the divisions - don't know why - I was too scared not to do so!
A childhood belief about in the street

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that if you stepped on the cracks of the pavement, a bear would jump up and eat you.— Nina
- If you step on the cracks in tiles when walking through a street, fairies will die.— Maddie
- When I was a kid, I used to believe that if I stepped on a bug, it would step on me in the other world.— classroom 43
- When I was a kid, I used to believe that if I stepped on a bug, it would step on me in the other world.
Anon - I thought I would fall through the cracks in my grandmother's deck.— Hannah
- that the bears which live in the cracks between paving stones are Russian— jonah fonder