This girl in my class, at finding out that I was turning six, told me that if I died when I was six, I would go to hell because six was the devil's number.
A childhood belief about birthdays

others believed things like this
- i thought when you flushed, it went down to hell and that's what the devil fed the people in he..— Barb.
- I remember a girl in my kindergarten class told me she wanted to be a waterfall when she grew up.Anon
- I used to believe that when i died it was like a super mario game... I had a certain number of lives.— David...waffles
- I thought everyone only had a set number of breaths before they died.
I breathed slowly for a long time.Anon - when i was little i believed that your social security number was the number you were born on the earth — christine
- My mum told me that if you eat while you're on the toilet, you're feeding the devil! — Claire