When I was three or four years old, I must have been anxious about the concept of burial, because I remember being told that only the body gets put in the ground, while the soul goes to Heaven.
I guess I didn't know what a 'soul' was, but I knew that my 'body' was all the parts of me other than my head; therefore, souls must be heads. I had this mental picture of headless bodies underground in coffins, and Heaven as a beautiful garden full of happy disembodied heads.
Several of my elderly relatives died when I was around that age, and I probably gave up on that idea when I went to an open-casket funeral and saw that the body in the coffin did still have a head.
A childhood belief about people
others believed things like this
- When i was younger i believed that when you died your soul use to go into a monkeys body— Ríoghnach
- I used to believe that a 'soul' was an organ of the human body, such as a kidney or lung. — Grace
- When i was little i thought that the soul was a physical part of your body that looked like shell pastaAnon
- I used to believe that a funeral organist was the person who collected the body parts of the deadAnon
- I used to believe that when people died, they flew to heaven in their coffins.— PikachuGirl123
- When i went to a funeral only a bit of the coffin was open so i thought when u died you turned into a migit.— Andrew