Belief no.3 involves the attic of the house we used to live in in Ireland. Dad had warned us not to step off the rafters as we would fall through into the house. I sort of didn't realise this meant that you would just fall straight throught the floor/ceiling and into the room below and thought you could fall through into any place in the house ...
A childhood belief about around the house

others believed things like this
- I thought if you trip and fall down you fall at the speed of light!— Dietrich Corby
- When I was a child my father warned me that if i picked my nose, my eye would fall out!— ras
- I used to believe that when you moved house you swapped house with the person moving into your old house.Anon
- When I was 3, my neighbor told me she was a witch and she said Godzilla was going to step on my house.— Grayson
- when i was a kid, i used to think that if i didn't fall asleep, morning wouldn't comeAnon
- I didn't want to get tall when I was younger because I believed that I would fall over. — Gabi