I used to believe that if you stepped on the cracks of the pavement, a bear would jump up and eat you.
A childhood belief about in the street

others believed things like this
- when I was little my uncle told me he was part bear. I believed people could be part bear until I was twelve. — Audrey
- I used to believe that dirt roads just needed to be swept (to reveal the pavement underneath). — KSAM
- I thought I would fall through the cracks in my grandmother's deck.— Hannah
- that the bears which live in the cracks between paving stones are Russian— jonah fonder
- If you step on the cracks in tiles when walking through a street, fairies will die.— Maddie
- I used to believe that if you stepped on a mushroom it would rain. Anon