My mom told me that everytime you sinned you got a little piece of your circle taken away. The circle is like your soul or like if the whole circle is gone you don't go to heaven.
A childhood belief about afterlife

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that rounding a number meant drawing a circle around it.Anon
- Until I was about 8 I believed that your back teeth keep growing in until you have a full circle of teeth.Anon
- I used to hear "Everytime you go away, you take a piece of Meat with you"
Makes a nice light snack I spose.— Linda - I was told that if one doesn't cover their mouth when yawning that their soul would escape.Anon
- i used to believe that if you slept with cats that they would eat your soul and you would die!!Anon
- My older brother told me that everytime you sneezed your lungs would bleed. I believed this until I was 21!— Gem