When I was two or three, I used to refuse to drink any liquids that had been sitting for too long because I thought the devil put poison in it when I was not looking. No one told me this about the devil. I just came to that conclusion with my morbid little mind.
A childhood belief about drinks
others believed things like this
- I believed that if I looked too long in the mirror admiring myself the Devil would appear.— Paul Elletson
- My mum told me that if you eat while you're on the toilet, you're feeding the devil! — Claire
- Grandmother told me if I whistled in the bathroom the devil would come get me because I was whistling for him.— Peanut @ Lake Tawakoni Tx
- My sisters told me, and I still believe, that the 'Hokey Pokey' is the Devil's song.— You shake it all about...
- I was told that if you dropped food on the floor, the devil kissed it. — Teresa
- When I was a child my Grandma told me if I threw food on the fire I was feeding the devil— Anthony P.