When I was 6, a 13 year old neighborhood girl told me that if I touched the pupil of my eye that I would die. She went on to say that she had done it once, and she had died! I believed her for many years, until I heard about contact lenses. I still carry a bit of a phobia though!
A childhood belief about eyes

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that contact lenses were made out of fish scales— ddm
- when I was growing up I truly believed that my neighborhood was the only neighborhood with "THE CORNER"— Brid
- I believed that those who died would be resurrected a year later.— crow
- When I was yonger i think all the pupil are bot and me i was the only man on the earth— Yanissah Akha du sah tahia Maghreb
- When I was little I believed when an actor died in a movie, he died in real life.— Ben
- when i was little someone told me that you died if you put make up on.
they actually believed it— SeZz