I used to believe that if you pulled the covers up tight around your neck that vampires wouldn't be able to bite you. I believed this because I thought they would think you were just a head with no body.
A childhood belief about vampires

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that if you slept with the covers covering your neck, vampires couldn't bite you. — Moot
- our grandfathers bald head was because our granmother pulled it out when she got mad at him— daniel copeland calif,u.s.
- when i was small i use to believe my parents were vampires— marine student 4
- I used to believe that the people who take your blood at the doctor's office were vampires. — Andy
- I used to think that "extra body" shampoo meant you could use the runoff suds to clean your body.— Christy
- When i was younger i believed that when you died your soul use to go into a monkeys body— Ríoghnach