I used to believe in something called "foot suffocation"- where your foot falls off because it's been suffocated in a plastic bag for too long. I think a neighborhood boy convinced me of this...oddly, I never considered the fact that people wear shoes everyday without "foot suffocation" occurring!
A childhood belief about general

others believed things like this
- I used to belive that if i put my foot in my mouth, I would get foot-and-mouth illness— Emily Sathrota
- When i was little i used to think that my foot was a "naughty part" that no one else was supposed to see.Anon
- When I was little I was conviced if you said twinkee in a mirror 3 time a foot would appear. Anon
- when i was 6 i used to belive if u ate ur toe nails u would grow a foot in ur stomach— chris
- that using athletes foot cream would instantly make me an athlete. — Kate
- I used to believe that dandelions where baby lions and if you trod on one it would bite your foot.— alice