I used to think when I was about 3 or 4 that whenever someone said a swear word, God would zap that person with a lightning bolt that came out of his finger. The more often a person swore, the greater the voltage of the lightning bolt.
A childhood belief about swearing
others believed things like this
- I was told that if your ever swore in church, as you walked out God would strike you with a bolt of lightning.— Lou
- When I was 10 I thought that if you smoked once God would shoot you with a lightning bolt!— tHOMAS
- I used to believe electricity came from lightning.Anon
- I used to believe that people could fly during thunder and lightning, because I dreamt this once— Minimania
- I knew lightning could come in through my bedroom window and kill me.
— Cyn - I was convinced that thunder and lightning could wake up volcanos.— leticia