Did you Have any Funny Beliefs as a Child?

Question

My sister played the same song over and over, I told her she better stop because they're probably getting tired of singing it over and over. (just a little kid of course).

Got any beliefs you had as a child that we can all laugh at now?

Answer 1

I was raised Catholic, and believed that holy water was magic. When I was seven, I put some on the places where I had scuffed my new shoes, in hopes they would heal before my mother saw them. Also, the first time our TV was repaired, I hung around to see the cartoon characters come out of the set and scurry around my living room.

Answer 2

Well...
I couldn't figure out why we were having a war with Gorillas for one!
I was scared to death of my Mother because she use to tell me she was going to kill me and tell God I died...

Well this is a little embarrassing... the first time I saw Superman on the television I got so excited... I never knew we could fly!!! I ran and got a towel, as you had to have a cape you know, pinned it around my neck and ran outside to the water tower. It was a good two and a half stories tall... I climbed all the way to the top, I was just set to fly as Grandmother stepped out onto the porch.... I yelled Gram watch and off I went... have u ever hit the ground so hard your foot stung? Well let me tell you... I could hear Gram screaming all the way down and for some reason it took a long time to hit the ground, must have been the cape! How I didn't break anything I will never know... But sting!!! Yes I was bruised and bloody and hurt like the dickens... needless to say that was the last of my TV days for a while!

Ha Ha Ha... true story!

Answer 3

Ahem... Mine seems alot weirder than any of these beleifs... I was never religious as a kid, but I did used to have *conversations* with god, who in my head was this cool little cartoon character like guy in a white robe....

In this forest, next to a farm I grew up on as a kid was this tree which we used to call the fairy tree, and it was all hollow inside, so you could climb up the strangling roots on the outside about half way up and then get inside the tree from there.... but no one had ever been down the very bottom on the inside because it was scary and almost possible to get down there....

So anyway, if you are still with me that is, I used to beleive whenever I did good things, god would put money in the bottom of the tree for me, as sort of like a trust fund for when I grew up, and when I did bad things he would take some away....

I also had an imaginary friend too.... She was awesome :)

Answer 4

Well this isn't funny tho. But as a child, I was taken in by things
I saw on screen at the movies. And one day a little girlfriend
of mine, wanted me to bring a chair and table outside of
mine to play with it, since it was summer. And I had brought
down some things and then decided it was too tiring and hot
to keep bringing things down the stairs the long way. So I
told her I was going to put my chair out the window, and she
was supposed to catch it, so it wouldn't hit the drive way and
break all to pieces. So she agreed to catch it. So I hoisted
it up onto the window ledge and called down to her below,
and asked if she was 'ready' to catch it. And she said she
was. So I pushed it over and down it went. Naturally she wasn't dumb enough to stand in the way when it didn't come
slowly sailing down, as we both had thought it would. But in-
stead it went straight down fast and crashed to the cement
and broke into pieces. I couldn't believe it wouldn't just float
down like a leaf as things did in cartoons sometimes. And I
was mad at her, that she hadn't caught it as she said she
would. LOL. Now how dumb was that? I guess I was about
7 years old at the time. Or maybe younger. That was sure a
hard way to learn about gravity. And I never tossed another
thing out of a window again. LOL. Especially in those days,
most kids never got many toys and we had to make things
last. I never got that chair replaced either. That was a hard
lesson I learned.

Answer 5

Whne I was a kid I used to read a lot, expecially about Indians and and the old west. One day I read about Indian burial mounds. In our woods, on the farm where we lived in Michgan, there were three or four long mounds, oh 15' long by about 5' wide, maybe 3' high, and I had believed that they were Indian burial mounds. I had half that woods dug up looking for Indian bones, but I never found any. My parents let me, I think they were glad for something to keep me busy. And I was sure there were Indian ghosts in those woods watching me dig for their bones, so at dark I was running like fury for the house, scared to death.
Still don't know what caused those mounds.

Answer 6

I thought there were little teeny people living in the radio !!! lol
I thought Paul Anka wrote a song about me !!!
I was eating oatmeal for breakfast with my cousin Curt when we were little. He was several years older than me. He leaned over and said " Ewwwww, that looks just like snot" And it really did. So much so I could never eat oatmeal again. But my Mom would make me sit at the table until I ate it. I couldn't eat it of course so I spent hours sitting at that table. Uh ohh Wick ... I'm not laughing !!!!!

Answer 7

After reading The Borrowers, I believed there were small people living in the walls who stole things.

Of course, there was a monster in my closet, but it couldn't get through blankets.

I thought when I heard songs on the radio that the people were there in the studio singing.

I believed cars could come alive and run me down (influenced by a Twilight Zone episode).

Answer 8

I had a few. I thought the devil lived under my bed and I had to undress on my bed because I thought I would get pulled under and to this day I can't dangle my legs over the side of the bed. The other one was , I would try to keep from falling asleep because I didn't want "the sandman " putting sand in my eyes. I made sure I didn't tell my daughter that one.

Answer 9

When I was a little kid, I didn't quite have a grasp on the idea that, when you eat meat, there are parts of the animal that you don't eat. This confusion led to quite the awkward/funny moment (particularly for the waitress, I'm sure) when my family went to a restaurant and I ordered a chicken beak. (Hey, I was around 4 at the time...)

Answer 10

When I was little, most evenings grandpa and I would sit on the porch swing waiting for grandma to finish doing the dishes and joining us. Grandpa used to to tell me when the sun was setting and the sky becomes all of those different beautiful colors of red, pink etc.,that it was strawberry ice-cream for Jesus. My uncle told me when I was five that if I
would lie on my stomach when trying to fall asleep I would fall asleep a lot faster. I believed that for years.