i used to believe that if i said a bad word, the devil would come and throw me out the window go figure
A childhood belief about swearing

others believed things like this
- i used to think that the word "stupid" was a curse word, ranging in scale right beside the "f" word.Anon
- In first grade, I thought that if I've never heard of a word before, then it wasn't a word.— Destiny
- My mum told me that if you eat while you're on the toilet, you're feeding the devil! — Claire
- i thought when you flushed, it went down to hell and that's what the devil fed the people in he..— Barb.
- I used to believe that when it thundered, it meant the devil was beating his wife.— Carol
- I believed if I prayed for the Devil, he would start being good for God. — Jackie