My granny told me that hair was the dead roots of your brain! I believed this for many years and once mistakingly mentioned it to my hairdresser who nearly died laughing (along with the rest of the salon)
A childhood belief about hair

others believed things like this
- I used to think raisons were bits of old people and after my granny died I never at them again— rraisonhaterrt
- i was always told if i picked my nose my brain would fall out! i belived it for years!Anon
- I used to believe that when my fish died and floated to the top, it was playing dead.— Alycia T
- I thought when a road sight said Dead End that someone had actually died there.Anon
- I thought that when you died, you had 2 weeks to be dead then you would magically wake up again, but as a babyAnon
- I used to believe that rootbeer was made from the roots of a beer plant.Anon