When I was small, my mother and grandmother had huge iris gardens and they told me that faeries lifed in the top enclosed part of an iris flower. I'm 50 and still believe it.
A childhood belief about fairies

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that the world, Earth, was enclosed in glass, like one of those snow globes.— G
- i used to think a small man named homer lived in my grandmother's freezer and made ice. — ana
- I thought Busch Gardens was a public garden owned by George W. Bush.Anon
- I believed that lightning bugs were faeries....
::sigh:: I miss those enchanted years of my youth.— Andrea Sorenson - When I was young, I believed that because my mother was born in New Mexico, that I was part Mexican.Anon
- when I was little my uncle told me he was part bear. I believed people could be part bear until I was twelve. — Audrey