When I was a kid, my parent told me not to point in the dark because if I accidentally point at a creature of the night, it will haunt me.
A childhood belief about monsters

others believed things like this
- I used to beleive that if you point at a graveyard, it would point back!!(whatever that meant)— scary ashley
- Never point at a grave, if you do your finger will rot off.— KL.R
- I used to believe that there was an actual point where I became a grownup.Anon
- I used to think that any number with a decimal point in it was HUGE.— sm
- I used to beleive that when you point you kill the fairys— Miss. Understood
- I used to believe that if you point at somebody you make holes in the air and the fairys fall over— Bob #1