I used to think that if you entered a grave yard, that is when you died. I found it to be perfectly logical! But my parents quickly corrected (of course, now I have a rather unnatural obsession with cemetaries).
A childhood belief about people
others believed things like this
- that if you stuck out your tongue at your mother, your hand would stick up out of the grave when you died.— Elaine. London
- I still hold my breath when I pass by cemetaries because it is impolite to breathe when other people can't.— Crystal
- Never point at a grave, if you do your finger will rot off.— KL.R
- I used to believe that if you walked directly over someone's grave, they would haunt you forever.— jonee
- I used to believe that,if you stood on someones grave,that their ghost would follow you home.— Bridie
- I used to believe that if the tyres were removed from a car, it would work perfectly on a railway track.— Anonymous Whistleblower