I passed the Coroner's Court in Sheffield frequently, and regarded it with trepidation, since I thought that at an inquest the body of the deceased was in court, and that if I looked through the windows I might see a rotting corpse. I'm told that in the distant past this was actually so!
A childhood belief about people
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that if I pumped in my sleep and breathed it in I would turn into a rotting turnip!— Quako
- I used to think that when you died, you would be awake trapped in your coffin rotting for all eternity!— Trapped in the Coffin
- Every old person I met smelled bad, and I thought old people smelled bad because they were slowly rotting.— Jasmine
- When i was little i thought that the soul was a physical part of your body that looked like shell pastaAnon
- When I was really young I used to think that dead bodies wouldn't start rotting until they were buried.— Katherine
- I used to believe that the inside of my body looked like bologna.— Stephenie