When I was the toilet I used to shake my head sometimes, because there was a ghost who counted the hair, If the ghost finished counting, the person in the toilet would die. So whenever I remember the story I shook my head badly.
A childhood belief about fear of

others believed things like this
- I loved watching the cartoon Casper the Friendly Ghost and wondered why the Holy Ghost never got his own show.— Robert
- I thought the Holy Ghost was the ghost of the Virgin Mary.— Texas granny
- I used to believe the way they counted up votes was by counting the signs people used to put on their yards— Jaci Marshall
- I believed that if you ate a piece of your own hair, a new strand of hair would grow on your head.— Ryo
- I used to think that bleaching your hair meant washing your hair with toilet bleach.Anon
- I used to believe that my head was filled with hair waiting to grow.— Poppy