I used to believe that if you swallowed your gum that you would crumble up and smell like a dead animal !!!!
A childhood belief about chewing gum

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that when I farted, i could smell up all the stench before anyone else could smell it.— Tim
- When I was a child, I used to think that if you eat an animal, you become that animal
— Hmza - I used to believe that a street sign that read "Dead End" meant that there were dead people buried there.Anon
- I used to believe that I could smell when it was going to snow.
(I still can!)— sw - Skunks smell bad because they eat garbage.— Isabel
- I used to believe that hairspray was made of grapes! =) Does't it smell grapey to you? XD— Jaime