When I was young and we would go camping I would never use the out door toilets. I had a fear of falling down the hole, or that some strange animal would bite me on the rear.
A childhood belief about fear of

others believed things like this
- As a young child I thought that sheep and poodles were the same animal.— Jane
- I thought the lyrics to "Don't fear the reaper" were "Don't fear the reefer"— who new?
- When I was a child, I used to think that if you eat an animal, you become that animal
— Hmza - My sibs and I thought that the screen door was called the "scream door" so Mom could yell at us through it. — Kyle
- I used to believe that if you dig a hole in the ground and put pepper in the hole, the ground would sneeze.— Cookie
- I used to believe that if you dreamed you were falling and you hit the ground, you'd die in your sleep.— Knoot