when i used to pull faces when i was little and my mom caught me she would tell me that "if the wind blew in the wrong direction that my face would be stuck like that" i still believed it until i was about 12 and auctually thought about it! :)
A childhood belief about appearance

others believed things like this
- If you pull a funny face, the wind will blow and it will get stuck.Anon
- I thought rain was made when God was crying, and wind when God blew on the earth because it was too hot.— Andy T
- When I was a child and the wind blew strong I used to believe that someone was hiding under the bed.— FER
- I used to believe that trees made the wind, but its the wind that blew the trees!— victoria
- if you cross your eyes and there's a gush of wind, you'll get stuck like that !!— Olivier
- I used to believe that if the wind changed when you were pulling your face that you would stick like that— Farino