I was made to believe that the pinching loo seat in the very old holiday cottage in Wales that I stayed in with my family at a very tender age, had a life of it's own and was called 'Pinchbottom'. My Dad named him thus and by the end of the two weeks I was unable to go to the loo on my own!!
A childhood belief about fear of

others believed things like this
- i used to believe if i went to sleep monsters would get my family, so i thought i stayed up all the time— Luc Lemmel
- I thought the holiday was called "Merrychristmas" so I would tell people "happy merrychristmas"Anon
- My mum used to tell me that cottage cheese was cows brains. I still ate it. — Justin
- that cottage cheese came from the roofs of cottages— shirley
- i used to think, when i was about 4 that i lived inside a whale because i live ion the country Wales— mike
- I spent ages wondering what a bart ender was as a child without realising that it was actually bar tender.— Heather