My dad told me when I was little that when you were sick you needed to fart to get the germs and posions out. If you didn't you would stay sick until you did.
A childhood belief about farting

others believed things like this
- I thought pretending I was sick to stay home from school was called cookie not hookie.— Jen
- I thought Pink's "You make me sick" was "you make me sick, you make me look like a candlestick" LOL— Rice
- I used to believe that doctors could not get sick.Anon
- When I was little I thought if you were sick the only way to get better was to give it to someone else.— Jen
- If you cut or pluck a cats whiskers they could get sick or die.— Paul Adam Trepanier
- My mom used to tell me that animals with red eyes were sick....rabbits, hamsters, ect....— Umm...