When I was about 3 & attending my grandmother's laying-out (at her home), I went over to her & touched her cheek. I did it VERY gently, & so got the erroneous impression that dead people were very soft--&, so, had apparently had their bones taken out! Being young enough to make this mistake I was neither surprised nor dismayed by it, & of course eventually learned better...but I remember thinking this was true for a long time.
A childhood belief about people
others believed things like this
- When I was 4 or so I believed if you touched a dead person you'd die too.— anonymous
- i thought that when you die they retire your email adress (apparently it's not true)— Nanofreak
- When I was young I thought that police had soft skin, because this is how it sounds in French " Peau lisse "
— amine - I used to believe that a street sign that read "Dead End" meant that there were dead people buried there.Anon
- When I was very young, I assumed that false teeth were taken from dead people's teethAnon
- I used to think that if I stared at the sun for a long time, I could make day turn to night.— Big J