My Scottish Grandfather would tell me after a bath that if I didn't dry off rapidly, that any part of my body that the water would dry on would fall off. I still dry myself as fast as possible to this day... 37 years later
A childhood belief about bathrooms

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that if i splashed water on the wall during a bath, the water would turn into spiders— justin
- i used to believe that if someone take his bath with a hair shampoo, their body will become hairy.— roslin
- how many us believed you would go down the drain with the bath water? I did!— Amy
- When I was a kid, I use to believe, when I put salt in my bath water I will turn into a mermaid.— marletha
- i used to believe that when you sat in the bath to long and got pruny
that the water made you old— Jami - I used to beleive that when I took a bath w/ my brothers, that if they peed in the water I'd get pregnant.— SabB