I had really long hair when I was young and I was terrified of it falling over the edge of the bed at night because the little mustard-coloured men who lived under my bed would climb up my hair and tie me down to the bed and stick pins in me. I had just read Gullivars Travels.
A childhood belief about under my bed

others believed things like this
- My friend believed that eating bread crusts or eating mustard will give you curly hair.— Linda from Southern California
- I used to think you had to stick those pins that you stick in your hat through your scalp. That's weird.— Angela
- I used to think that everybody's hair was black and if you had blond hair, you dyed your hair.— ~_~CoolKid93_~_
- I used to hold my hand over my hair whenever i left the house and it was windy incase my hair blew away— lisa
- I used to believe that you could curl your hair by twirling a strand of hair wrapped around your finger— Anonymous
- I believed that if you ate a piece of your own hair, a new strand of hair would grow on your head.— Ryo