At the age of 3, my mother made me believed that if I ate chicken wings (I personally hated them in the past), I will get to fly when i "grow up". But of course I never did despite eating them obediently.
A childhood belief about general

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that if you ate enough chicken wings, you'd sprout wings and be able to fly.Anon
- When I caught chicken pox, I thought it was down to me eating too much chicken.— Helen
- I used to believe that if you buried a chicken bone in the backyard it would grow a chickenAnon
- I thought that eating chicken gave me muscles (chicken and muscles sound the same in Mandarin).— NG
- i used to believe if a cat ate a bird the cat would eventually GROW WINGS!— nightmare
- I used to believe that my grandma's chandelier would grow wings and chase me and kill me.— Katrien