when i was like 6, i used to think that if i coughed or made any noise, a witch would get me from under my bed.
A childhood belief about witches

others believed things like this
- when i was younger (8 or 9) and i farted my dad used to tell me not to worry, that my bum just coughed.— james
- I used to think that foreign people coughed and sneezed in a different language.— Even more stupid
- when i was little i used to beleive that if i coughed, sneezed and farted at the same time i would blow up— fart
- my gran tod me that rabbits made a noise that went "map map"— Lise
- I used to think that the wind that made a howling noise was a ghost.— Febi
- I also thought that people in different countries coughed, sneezed, laughed, or cried in their own language!— Mini