people

I used to believe that anyone who died could be brought back to life by giving them electric shocks! I'd seen it on casulty on Tv once and was sure that it could always be done!

Live for Ever!

When i was about 4 my gran's neighbour died. Iwas told that the angels had taken him. I imagined the angels arriving to take him away in their car!

sj

When I was very young (around 7 or 8), I overheard a conversation by my parents and a few of their friends. Apparently, one of the friends had just gotten back from the funeral of a distant family member.

My father then laughed, "You know, sometimes they pop right back outta the ground after you throw dirt on 'em." and even though the others shared in his laughter, I was horrified.

Sabre

When i was a child, my mother asked my younger sister and myself to go down and sit with our dying gran, until our aunt could take over. We arrived at gran's, she was asleep in a very dark bedroom with some awful radio station playing in the back ground. After a while my younger sister who was by now terribly bored, leaned over to me and said in a loud whisper "is she dead yet, cos Blue Peter starts in five minutes and we will miss it" As a matter of fact, gran managed to struggle on for another three years or so.

Anon

When i was in year one. one of the kids
told me that if i got black paint on my hands and didn't wash it off strait away
it would kill me.

Tabstar

I remember as a very small child going with my parents to see my dying grandfather, the bed was, in my memory, so very high, I thought he was like the princess and the pea and had to have hundreds of mattress'.....needless to say it was just because I was 'wee'!!!!

carole

When I was about 7/8, the long-running UK TV soap, Coronation Street, showed one of the elderly characters, Martha Longhurst, sip a glass of "milk stout" in the pub, take off her spectacles and promptly die with her head in her hands.
For years after, I always feared that, if an old-ish person removed their spectacles, they would be dead soon after.

Steve D

for most of my young childhood years i believed, because my sister told me, that African natives who were about to die would have their hearts pulled out of their chests so they could see them before they died. (why would they?! but hey, my sister told me so it had to be true!)

Derek

i used to believe that wen a sign in a shop said "all shop lifters will be prosicuted" it meant all shop lifters would be exicuted!

Paula fae Scotland!

I used to believe that if I cut the web of flesh between my thumb and forefinger that I would get Lockjaw (tetanus) and die.

"Tusitala"

I used to think that you died after you had breathed a million times. This resulted in spells of light-headedness as I went to sleep each night, attemtping to maximise my time alive.

ned

that if you stuck out your tongue at your mother, your hand would stick up out of the grave when you died.

Elaine. London

i used to believe that if you died you could choose what you could be reincarnated as.

claire

i was at a funeral and mad a poem about my best friend in the world, i didn't cry and i knew god needed him. I saw him as an angel in the sky like his name was going to make him that, his name was Angel. From then on I believed that when everyone dies they become what they're name means

Bliss Israel

when I was little I believed that you could die before realizing it...amost like that Robert Crane book. You could get hit by a car and you'd think that the car missed you. You would go on living but in another universe you would have died at that instant. this would keep happening an infinate number of times. I also wondered who god's mommy and daddy were.

Tony B