my childhood friends and I held the belief that if you dialled 666 on the phone you would be put through to the devil!
A childhood belief about telephones

others believed things like this
- I used to belief sloths lived in trees outside my childhood home. My older sister told me so.Anon
- I always thought that my relatives were really tiny, and inside my phone when I talked to them on the phone.Anon
- 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