When i was nine i used to think that gnomes came alive when i watered the flowers. Therefore i always threw the water and ran. To this day i still don't have water fights near any flowers.
A childhood belief about monsters

others believed things like this
- I used to think that you could bring dead flowers back to life if you watered them.Anon
- All flowers had exactly five petals and two leaves.— MD Caruso
- I used to believe that flowerbeds were beds for flowers.— Nina Green
- When I was a child I used to belive that fairies were born from the flowers.— fantasy
- I used to believe people grew from spores and when we got old, we'd grow leaves and flowers etc— Calvin (from my pet tiger Hobbes)
- I used to think watering dead flowers would bring them back to life.— Natasha