When I was five, my Grandad died. A few months later, my cousin had a baby. When I asked my Mum why my cousin's baby had been born after my Grandad died, she said it was because when someone in a family died, someone was born to replace them. The next time there was a birth in the family, I was terrified that someone else was going to die!
A childhood belief about people
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that when you had a cousin twice-removed, they had died and came back to life twice.— Amanda
- I thought that when you died, you had 2 weeks to be dead then you would magically wake up again, but as a babyAnon
- That because Gerber Baby Food had a baby on it real babies were put in there. Thanks a lot cousin!— Nicole
- I thought there was some video games so hard that if you died on them you also died in real life!— Kakuri
- When I was little I believed when an actor died in a movie, he died in real life.— Ben
- I used to believe that when we died (and animals) died they were picked up in a bus with there name on it.— Lawny