My dad told me that in the Battle of Hastings when King Harold was shot in the eye with an arrow, the archer who fired it said he didn't know his bow was loaded.
A childhood belief about wars

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that when you were fired, you were shot.— Murray
- our father which art in heaven,Harold be thy name— oddsox
- King Henry VIII was named “the eighth” by his dad because the first seven didn’t listen!— Mojo
- I used to think that aeroplanes were called "arrowplanes" because they were shaped like an arrow.— Eduardo
- Street signs with the upward pointing arrow was for airplanes. — Tammy
- I used to believe that guns shot out blood because everytime somebody shot a gun in a movie you saw blood.Anon