When I was younger I used to believe in an animal called "dahu": this animal was supposed to live on the side of mountains, according to my relatives... I've been looking for it and even hunting it for ... a long time! It had two legs shorter than the two others, so that you just had to shout to make it turn back and fall! Then you could catch it!
A childhood belief about general

others believed things like this
- I thought for a long time that beaver and badger are the same animal— Ted Snow
- I used to think for a very long time, that spam was left over animal parts with salt.— Ebony
- I used to believe that an oilskin actually came from an animal called an Oil.....— Sally
- When I was a child, I used to think that if you eat an animal, you become that animal
— Hmza - I used to think a female daddy-long-legs was called a "mummy-long-legs".Anon
- I used to think that if I stared at the sun for a long time, I could make day turn to night.— Big J