I believed when I was little that if you breathed in as you went by a cemetery you would suck death in and die. I held my breath whenever I was driven past and flatly refused to walk by - not being able to hold my breath long enough!
A childhood belief about people
others believed things like this
- If you hold your breath and make a wish under a highway tunnel it will come true....I still hold my breath :)— aj
- I believed that the inside of a tomato was a small, living creature and I flatly refused to eat that bit.Anon
- I used to think that if you held a turd in for more than an hour it would give you bad breath— phil
- when i was a little kid. i used to think that when u hold ur breath ur heart stops.. LOL :P — Annonymus
- I used to dream that if I held my breath, I could swim through the air for brief amounts of time— Adam
- I held my breath near cemeteries because I thought it would be rude to inhale spirits. Anon