When my son was little, he told me that he knew why we buried dead people .... then he carefully explained ..... 'so we don't trip over them.'
A childhood belief about people

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that a street sign that read "Dead End" meant that there were dead people buried there.Anon
- I thought that dead people were stuffed INSIDE their gravestone instead of buried in a coffin.— Sam Shiels
- I used to believe that falling leaves were dead butterflies, and I always buried them in the back yeard.— waters
- When I was really young I used to think that dead bodies wouldn't start rotting until they were buried.— Katherine
- I used to believe that the way you knew when people were dead was when their toungue was sticking out. — Geneva
- when i was a lil kid i used to think salt was dead lice that people but on there food and i never knew why
— jessica diamond