When I was in grade school, and first began reading some articles in our city's newspaper, I sometimes read about someone's body being found. After my mother explained that this meant the person was dead, I assumed it also meant that these dead people were often decapitated, since I pictured that these articles refered to finding dead people's bodies only -- as opposed to a body with a head.
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 used to believe that a funeral organist was the person who collected the body parts of the deadAnon
- I used to think that "cross-eyed" meant that people had X's for eyes, like dead people in cartoons.— Tim
- I used to think that when I saw someone on TV whom I knew to be dead , it meant that it was his or her ghost.— Sophie
- When I was very young, I assumed that false teeth were taken from dead people's teethAnon
- I used to believe a dead end sign meant there was a graveyard at the end of the street or zombies — Still Out There