I used to believe that when you sit on the toilet and don't flush soon enough before you get off, a snake would rise out of the toilet and bite you
A childhood belief about fear of

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that if I sat on the toilet too long a snake would come up and bite me.— Cheesemonkey
- I used to beleve when i was 4 that the flush on the toilet was to wake up toilet monsters.— Millie
- i used to belive that when you flush a toilet on an aeroplane you get sucked down— milly
- My brother (who was 6 at the time) would never flush the toilet in fear of our new house being blown up! Anon
- I used to believe that crocodiles lived in the toilet and would bite my butt when I had to go to the loo.— Oz
- When I was 8 I thought a spider lived in the toilet and would bite me if I sat on it.— Mike