My mother use to tell me to be quiet during a thunderstorm. I never could figure out why she said that and now when it's a thunderstorm I make everyone in the house be quiet.
A childhood belief about thunder and lightning

others believed things like this
- I know my dog, Palmer, spoke English, he was just really quiet.
— Klayne P. - I used to believe that the more you talked, the sooner you would die. Needless to say, I was a quiet kid.— Lisa
- I used to believe that when you moved house you swapped house with the person moving into your old house.Anon
- when i was young i believed that when u moved house the house would come with you !!!
just like a turtleAnon - The Whit house down the street was the real "White House". — SG
- I used to believe that if you opened up an umbrella inside your house that the whole house would fly awayAnon