• When I was a Little girl my mom told me not play in the Street at night because she said I was going to see the elf and then when it was dark I would go quickly to the because I was to the house because I was afraid that I would appear.
• When I was a child, my mother said to watch a lot of television, because she thought that if I watched a lot of television I would go blind, so when I watched a lot of television and my eyes felt tired, I was scared because I thought I would go blind.
A childhood belief about monsters
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that I could jump through the television and be where the people were on television.— Ash
- My parents used to tell me watching television turns your eyes square.— Ruth
- As a child I believed I could get sucked into the television. — Deb
- last time when the television was on i thought the people were performing in it -.-
— irritated kid - When I was around four, I thought every black man on television was Bill Cosby.— Linda
- I used to believe that if i watched TV for too long, my eyes would turn square. As told to me by my mother.— Alex