I used to believe that if something touched mold, be it food or even a body part, that the touching party would "catch" mold too!
A childhood belief about dangerous food

others believed things like this
- i used to believe that tha if I had any body part stisking out of the bed it would get me— strait sleeper
- I used to beleive, that if you swallowed a seed the food would grow in your body.Anon
- 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 when people broke bones, doctors would give them a new part of the body they broke. — Kelly
- I called every body part my elbow. For example if my leg hurt I would say my elbow hurt.— Kady
- I used to think that "extra body" shampoo meant you could use the runoff suds to clean your body.— Christy