My great grand mother told me that if you eat your own earwax, then you will become a mute.
I still haven't tested it out yet.
A childhood belief about general

others believed things like this
- When I saw my grand mother was very old I used to believe an Egyptian mummy!!!!
— Eomer83 - I used to believe that earwigs lived on earwax, and that they would crawl into my ear canal and eat my brain.— dodyskin
- My Grand father told me that if i swallowed chewing gum i would stick to the toilet— Mr Jones
- I use to think that alka seltzer tablets were instant 7UP soda until one day I tested my belief. — aj
- I was convinced that Indians had dug the Grand Canyon.— Tom Sackett
- when was little i used to believe that if you won the grand national you would become prime ministerAnon