My belief were that if you lit candles in your room at 8:00 pm then your sprits of the ones you loved would come and cleanse your body.
A childhood belief about people

others believed things like this
- As a kid, I use to believe that candles were made out of ear wax.— CC
- I used to think that the wax statues at Madame Tussauds were made of recycled candles and crayons.Anon
- I used to think that "extra body" shampoo meant you could use the runoff suds to clean your body.— Christy
- When I was a child I used to believe stars were the dead people who we loved— Anaïs
- I used to think that teachers slept at school because they loved children— Michu
- When I was eight, I loved Madonna's "Papadompe Beach." Didn't get why she was in trouble, though....— tncatboy