When I was in kindergarten a priest came around on Ash Wednesday to put ashes on our heads. All I got out of his talk beforehand was that after he put the ashes on my head I was going to die in 40 days. I remember holding back the tears & wanting my mom.
A childhood belief about church

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that if I got my hair cut like Farrah Fawcett's people would throw ashes on me.— mel
- I used to believe that when people got shot in the head that their heads would blow up. — Emily
- I used to believe that heads of state had diferent kinds of heads on their shoulders— stupid elado
- I remember a girl in my kindergarten class told me she wanted to be a waterfall when she grew up.Anon
- back in the days i thought the world was black and white like in the pictures— compaq
- My mom always told me she had eyes in the back of her head. — Ellana