when I was a little kid, I was told that if I bleed any part of my body, like my hands or knees, the food that I ate will get out with the bleeding. This belief succeeded in making me stop crying n paying more attention to the scar instead.
A childhood belief about general

others believed things like this
- When I was a child I used to believe that there were two hands inside the TV making the cartoons move.Anon
- i used to believe that tha if I had any body part stisking out of the bed it would get me— strait sleeper
- I used to beleive, that if you swallowed a seed the food would grow in your body.Anon
- My mum told me that if you sniffed poppies your nose would bleed.— Karen
- My older brother told me that everytime you sneezed your lungs would bleed. I believed this until I was 21!— Gem
- When i was little i thought that the soul was a physical part of your body that looked like shell pastaAnon