my mom used to tell us that if we went to bed hungry the devil would pull our legs. So we always made sure we ate something.
A childhood belief about eating

others believed things like this
- I had tinnitus as a child and used to believe that it was the sound that the devil made when he was closeby— Helen
- I used to believe that molasses were made by grasshoppers rubbing their back legs together.— Valerey Lavergne
- when i was little i always asked my mom if my aunt had ant legs or people legs.— kelly
- I used to think a female daddy-long-legs was called a "mummy-long-legs".Anon
- I used to beleive that my stomach growled when I was hungry because I was part tiger.— Matthew
- My mum told me that if you eat while you're on the toilet, you're feeding the devil! — Claire