My mother used to tell me that if you walk in the rain without an umbrella, you would get lice. I'm 30 years old now, but I still get a strange nervousness when I get caught without a brolly in the rain.
A childhood belief about weather

others believed things like this
- My dad thought when he was little, rain was caused by army guys in the clouds with rain guns. — Daughter of the Weird
- I used to believe I could control the weather by singing rain rain go away or blowing the clouds away.— Shannon
- I believed that the rain would melt everything...I was terrified to go outside in the rain! — Cris
- I used to think that Rain Man had something to do with Singin' in the Rain.Anon
- I used to believe reindeer made it rain because for many years it rained on christmas eve night.Anon
- i used to believe that i was the only person that could see rain— katie