I was told that if you ever raise your hand to hit your Mother, your hand would stand straight up in your coffin and they would have to break your arm to close it.
A childhood belief about people

others believed things like this
- I used to think that my right hand wasn't my right hand anymore if I turned around.— Mike
- that if you stuck out your tongue at your mother, your hand would stick up out of the grave when you died.— Elaine. London
- when i was 6 my mom told me that if you bit your nails a hand would grow in your stomachAnon
- I used to believe that I could actually cut the clouds with my hand.Anon
- I used to believe that if you put your hand in a venus fly trap it would eat it.Anon
- My mother told me that if I lay too close to our electric radiator (heater) my brains would melt.
— robyn c.