My mom said that everytime that I said a bad word,
my mouth will dirty up and onions will grow in it, and the only way to stop it was to wash my mouth out with soap. I believed that for 3 months.
A childhood belief about swearing

others believed things like this
- when i was little, i thought that you could pull your eyeballs and wash them in your mouth— beak
- Until about 6 months ago (I'm 21), I believed a bidet was used to wash your feet in.
Eep!— Rebekah - My friend convinced me that if I used a bar of soap to wash my hair instead of shampoo that I would go bald.— Michelle
- I used to belive that if i put my foot in my mouth, I would get foot-and-mouth illness— Emily Sathrota
- i used to believe that the "coin wash" was to clean my dirty pennies.— rmutt
- i used to believe that if u didnt wash behind your ears potatos would grow in the dirt— michelle