At 4, I believed that dice worked by changing the number of dots when you throw them on the table, by some kind of internal mechanical magic. When I first tried my hands on one, I couldn’t make it shift, and assumed I simply wasn’t old enough to produce the force needed.
A childhood belief about magic tricks

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that dot-to-dots were called 'doctor dots'.— Jim
- i used to believe the graveyard shift was when you worked in a graveyardAnon
- When I was a child I belived that cars worked with magic— Marc Pujol
- when i was little i believed that your social security number was the number you were born on the earth — christine
- When I was little I believed little men and little women worked inside my body to make everything work.— Ashley
- My Sister Used To Believe She Could Fly By Driniking Water From A Magic Forton. I Told She Couldn't.— Zoe