My mother used to tell us that if we incessantly rang the doorbell, it would make the house burn down in a fire.
A childhood belief about around the house

others believed things like this
- I used to be terrified of fire-flys because I believed they would burn if they landed on me.— kevin
- i always thought it was Grape Balls of Fire instead of Great Balls of Fire— Courtney
- i used to think if i would eat spicy food i would burn and die— Bill
- i used to think tha if you went outside when it was acid raining the rain would burn holes in your skin— fear of rain
- When I was young I had a plan to shoot big piles of paper up to the sun so it would never burn out.— Waterbottle
- i used 2 think if u lied your pants would catch on fire cus of the sayin "lier lier pants on fire!"— nell