I believed that if you put a dying person in a totally sealed air-tight transparent glass box, when the person actually dies, the glass box would develop a small crack indicating that the soul (spirit) has escaped that way.
A childhood belief about people

others believed things like this
- 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 when a person moved away, they switched houses with the person that bought their house— alli
- 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 that if a white person and a black person has a baby it would be mexican.— J