My grandfather terrorised me from the age of 5 by telling me that the devil lived down the toilet. I still can't leave a toilet seat up even now.
A childhood belief about fear of

others believed things like this
- I used to think if I left the toilet seat open my cat would get flushed down the toilet.— G
- I used to believe that monsters lived in my toilet and they ate my poop and urine when i flushed the toilet.Anon
- My mum told me that if you eat while you're on the toilet, you're feeding the devil! — Claire
- I used to think you could get pregnant by sitting on a toilet seat.— Lisa
- I used to think that boy's lifted the toilet seat to pee because their asses were too big.— sydo
- I used to belive that if you didn't hold onto hte toilet seat you would fall in.— silly