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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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When I was 5 and my brother was 4, a close family friend died. My brother thought that she would come back to life in 3 days. We were raised Catholic and he thought that the Jesus story applied to everyone who died.
Heather
When you saw a funeral go by, you had to grab a button on your shirt.
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For some reason when I was a youngster I believed that if you died and went to Heaven the fastest vehicle there was a Ford Escort van (in white, natch). So for the last 30-odd years I've been determined to go to hell.
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My mom told me and my sister that if you wear your bathrobe to bed, the sash on it could get tangled up around your neck and strangle you.
We sort of didn't believe this, but worried about it just the same. To this day when I get in bed wearing a bathrobe, I have to think a minute and persuade myself that the sash isn't going to come alive like a snake and wrap around my neck. It gives me a creepy feeling most of the time, so I just take the bathrobe off and wear a flannel shirt to bed instead.
Thanks Mom!
Liz
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My grandmother owned a nursing home when I was little. I spent a lot of time there when my mom was working. of course people died there now and then. They told me the angels came to get them. But all i ever saw was the ambulance pulling up out back. so for a long time I thought angels drove around in ambulances taking people away.
Pam
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I had no concept of death. I thought that when people died they were taken away in an ambulance, and then brought back from hospital when they'd recovered.
ludwig van dollymixture
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I used to believe that if you bled to death your body would be flat.
-G
When I was little I overheard my older brother talking to my mom about dying and something that I didn't understand about a "coffin". For some reason I thought that this "coffin" was in fact a large, terrible bird. I became terrified that a large bird would come and get me. Made sense, as a stork brought me...
Sal
I was very young when, having no realistic concept of the biological implications of actual 'life' and 'death', I believed that when a person was awake s/he was 'alive' and when asleep was 'dead'. The up-side to this was that death was not frightening because I knew that I would ALWAYS wake up!
Chris -- California, USA
I thought that you could stop your heart and die if you hit yourself on the chest hard enough. This of course made me fear for the life of anybody impersonating Tarzan or a Gorilla of some sort.
Maud Flanders UK
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When my daughter was five years old we lived in Los Angeles. She and her father had been shot at on the freeway, he had been mugged outside the neighborhood bank, and we frequently heard gunfire at night. When I gently informed her that her great-uncle had passed away, she thought for a moment then asked "Who shot him?"
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When I was about four or five, I think, I used to think that people were buried with their heads sticking up out of the ground. This never bothered me...
...Until the day I remember it raining very hard and I got very worried. I told my mother that I was worried for all the dead people and she asked why and I told her I was afraid they'd drown.
She asked me why I thought that the dead people were buried with their heads above ground.
"So that they can talk to people," I said.
My mother was shocked. "Talk to people? But honey, they're dead."
"But why else would so many people go visit their relatives at the cemetary?" I asked her.
To this day, I smile whenever I see people visiting gravesites. Their loved one may not be talking to them, but the memories are.
Sandy Layne
WHEN I WAS YOUNGER I USED TO BELIEVE THAT WHEN PEOPLE DIED IN MOVIES THAT THEY DIED IN REAL LIFE.WHEN I SAW THEM IN ANOTHER MOVIE I SAID TO MYSELF "I THOUGHT HE DIED."
MELY850
Someone told me People and fish went to the same place.I thought they meant humans get flushed
MrK
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When my brothers and I used to play as kids and one of us got shot we would play dead with our arms out streached and our feet crossed. We grew up catholic and the only dead person we had ever seen was Jesus on the cross.
Donna
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I was about 6 when my great-grandpa died, but wasn't allowed to go to the funeral. Somehow I came to the conclusion that they must be stringing up the corpse and making it dance around like a marionette. When I saw this happen with Mr. Burns on the Simpsons last year, I almost injured myself from laughing so hard.
Brian J. Wright
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I was five when my grandmother died. My mom told me she would be cremated. I asked what that meant. She told me they would put her in an oven until she was burned to dust. I was horrified by the image of how they would have to chop her up in order to fit her body into a kitchen oven.
Ed
My sister used to think that because I was 15 months older than her, I would die 15 months before her!
Nicola Braden
During my childhood days,I think that when people became dead ,there next birth will depend on the following
"When you are rich this time then the next time you will born as a poor person and vice versa"
and i dont know what will happen to the people like me , since I born in moddle class family
Prakash N Gandhi
When I was a kid, I used to believe people died once they were over 21.
Pleased my mother for years though, because I refused to believe she was older than 21, even though she had turned 40! :)
K
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