When I was a kid, I was told that if you wore your shoes backwards, a bear will come and eat you.
A childhood belief about general

others believed things like this
- when I was little my uncle told me he was part bear. I believed people could be part bear until I was twelve. — Audrey
- I used to belief that the Muslim women who wore their garment wore it because they were bald.Anon
- My dad told me "Hush Puppie" shoes were made from Basset Hound ears.— William
- My father always told me that if I wore socks to bed I would grow hair inbetween my toes. Anon
- i used to think that french was english backwards!— ---pepsi---
- I used to think that Russian was just English backwards— Millie