When my daughter was 4 years old, she watched a tv show on the volcanos of Hawaii. They showed the lava, or "lavie", flowing into the ocean. For about 6 months after that she was convinced that "lavie" would come out of the hot water fawcet when ever she turned it on...
A childhood belief about water

others believed things like this
- I was convinced that thunder and lightning could wake up volcanos.— leticia
- i used to believe lava and water made electricityAnon
- I used to believe that somebody turned the ocean waves off at night.— David
- i used to believe that the water in the ocean went away a night......then came back in the morning.— Beverly
- That the rivers stopped flowing at night!— Louise
- I used to think Tomato soup was Lava.— Daniel Green