when i was little my older sisters would tell me that when you sneeze, that is your soul trying to escape. for a while i would always try and hold back my sneezes or do it very softly so my soul wouldn'know.
A childhood belief about general
others believed things like this
- I was told that if one doesn't cover their mouth when yawning that their soul would escape.Anon
- i thought that you had like a box or something inside you to hold your soul for the longest time— jill
- i used to believe that if you slept with cats that they would eat your soul and you would die!!Anon
- My dad always told me to never hold my sneeze and if I did, then my head will explode.— anon.
- I used to believe that your soul was a millimeter thick, right under your skin, and looked exactly like youAnon
- I had the weird superstition that if I let all the bathwater run out it'd suck my soul down with it too.— Dan