When I was little I thought when you died your tongue would hang out of your mouth like a dog's tongue. So when my brother and I played cowboys and Indians and we got "shot" we'd fall to the ground with our tongues hanging out, except our tongues were pointed upwards and not downwards. I guess we didn't know about gravity at that time!
A childhood belief about people
others believed things like this
- when i was younger i thought ants had tongues. i always pictured them sticking their tongues out at me. — i was an idiot
- i always thought that people always died with their tongue hanging out— Ernesto Shredder
- I used to believe that when you died no matter what your tongue hung out the side of your mouth. Anon
- I used to believe that if a dog stuck their tongue in your mouth, you would get worms no matter what.— ` [ A ] m a n d a .
- I used to think that all people closed their eyes and stuck their tongue out when they died.Anon
- that if you stuck out your tongue at your mother, your hand would stick up out of the grave when you died.— Elaine. London