I used to think that if you were scared "half to death" that you only had one scare left before you died.
A childhood belief about people

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that "Earwigs lived in your ears", scared
me to death for years.— Will Chapman - I believed one of the greatest dangers you could face was quick sand. I was scared to death of it.Anon
- I usd to believe that, all Americans were left handed and we all died when we reached our 100th birthday!— Greg Baron
- I used to believe that your belly button was what held your top half to your bottom half...— Debelouwho
- I thought there was some video games so hard that if you died on them you also died in real life!— Kakuri
- When I was little I believed when an actor died in a movie, he died in real life.— Ben