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- If you don't hold your breath as you pass a cemetery you will die or become possessed.
- People killed in films or on TV die in real life.
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I said to my mum when I was about 6 "Mum - you know when you die, and they put you in the box, how do you breath?"
Lesley
When I was a child I used to believe that when somebody died, he/she really moved to another city or another country with a new family.That person started a new life, and is a little baby now.
aura
When I was 4 I used to believe that when a man or a woman died he or she would fly to Heaven.When my grandfather died, my parents didn't want to let me see him dead and I spent much time by the window in order to see him flying to the sky
Teresa
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I used to believe that we could write letters to people who had died. My mother's mother passed away when I was 3, and I'd never met my father's mother. My mother's stepmother sent me clothes for every holiday, and she had me write thank you notes to grandma. Well, I thought that the clothes had been sent from heaven, and the notes were going to one of the grandmas there. I didn't know for the longest time that it was all from the "grandma" who was alive in NYC. It made me really believe in the mail system! and that there must be some sort of transportation back and forth...
Desba Silvers
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I used to believe that when people died, they came back to life as dolls. My grandmother died when I was 9 and when I was 11, my dad gave me these porcelian dolls she had owned. I put 2 in my room and could not sleep so I put them back in the box and me dad put them in the attic.
Duck y
One day when I was 4 years old I asked my mother how her mother had died. Rather than try to explain what heart disease was, she told me that my Grandma had a really bad heart that just wouldn't keep working.
Years later, we had a house full of people and I began explaining to a large group that my grandmother was soooo mean, it killed her!
My mother was really upset with me, until she realized that she was the one who had told me about Grandma's "bad heart." She then changed her wording to "sick heart"
Kalgirl
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When I was five I thought that if I touched a toadstool and licked my finger I would die. One day I decided I wanted to die so I did just this. I found a toadstool in the garden, touched it and licked my finger. Then I went to bed. My sister asked why I had gone to bed and I told her I was going to die.
When I was about 5 years old one of those grocery store tabloids had a tv show. It was so close to how regular news was that in my little mind I thought everything they said was fact. Everything from bat babies to talking dogs. One night they said that there was a giant bomb somewhere in a cave in Africa that was set to go off in the year 2000. Needless to say I believed it (probably even more so since the had PICTURES...which looked like a giant clock). I cried and repented for weeks. I even planned out my life expecting to die at 14, since that's how old I would be.
I think my belief started to fade a bit when I was about 11, but after the ball dropped I still pinched myself to make sure I was still there.
Link
When I was very young (I don't even remember what age) I was told by my mother that when you died, your soul left your body and went to heaven. Somehow I got the idea that souls looked exactly like candy canes, and floated out of your mouth once you were put into your coffin.
I used to believe that, come the end of the century, everyone would die.
When I was about 6 yrs old they sent the first men into space. At around the same time I saw a funeral procession go past & asked my mum about it. "They have died & gone to heaven" she told me. For ages I thought that people went up in spaceships when they died.
Patsy
I remember going to a good deal of funerals when I was little, and knew clear and well that the people in these 'big shiny boxes with pretty blankets'- were not going to get up and make people stop crying, no one in my family explained 'death' to me, so I basically had to teach myself.
Cruel as it sounds I never cared about the body that was in the boxes I always wonder what came out of them, you see I had my own little concept of 'soul and spirit' but since I was a child I never knew what each was (in a specific sense), but I did know there was something, and that the body wasn't important at that time.
When I was 12 my brother died and I never cried at his funeral, I still had/have that belief that it wasn't him in the coffin he was/is somewhere else- a good place. ^_^
i miss him a lot
KittDawn
I used to think that when you were dead, they could give you a pill to make you alive again. My brother and I used to play "hospital", and if one of us "died", the other would administer an "alive pill".
This was before I saw The Princess Bride, so you can imagine how hard I was giggling at the Miracle Max scene!
Athazagoraphobia
I have no idea how I came up with this, but as a for and five year old, I thought that when you died, your eyes didn't close all the way. I mean, they were 90% closed, but they were still a tiny bit open. I also remember thinking that death was less total than fainting, during which your wyes close all the way.
I'm not dead yet
i used to believe that if i strung beads to make a necklace, some will enter my mouth by accident and kill me. i stopped making bead necklaces since then >.<
ly
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After somebody died, my sister kept hearing talk about "the body"; The body being taken here, the body being laid out there, the body being taken to the church, the body being buried there, etc. After many days, she quietly asked, "Mommie, but what about the head?"
Lauren D.
When I was little I didn't know what a cemetery was, and I always wanted to stop and pick all the pretty flowers. But my mom told me that we couldn't pick those flowers.
HM
i believed that my parents were imposters...i believed you never knew when you died, life just kept going on without so much as a ripple and if you had been good bad things would just stop happening...but for kids like me...the bad things would just get worse and it would never end and you would never know
reMARKable
when i first herd abo0ut death i was very sad because it waws then at the age of 6 that i realise my grandad wasnt come back.
I also used to believe that when u died you went to hell and come back to earth as a wolf.
v.l.b
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i read something in a magazine as a kid about spontaneous combustion that really worried me. the article said it was more likely to happen when it was dry outside. it also said something about how people who spontaneously combusting sometimes completely disappearing with only a few ashes and possibly their singed or melted shoes left behind.
an old lady who lived behind us used to sleep out on a screened-in porch during the spring and summers. for some reason i thought that since she was sleeping outside and spending so much time outside that she was more susceptible to spontaneously combusting. every time i went to her house i was a little afraid of finding only some charred shoes on her porch.
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