I used to think that the world was a person, and that earthquakes were caused by the world farting. It only seemed natural then, for me to asume that volcano's were the world being sick.
A childhood belief about disasters

others believed things like this
- I thought the world was black and white because of all the smoke from the bombs in Second World War.— Bjoern
- I used to believe that earthquakes happened because the earth was farting. — Amanda
- Until a few years ago, I believed this was a "doggy dog" world, rather than a "dog-eat-dog" world.— jemima
- I used to think that the phrase "It's a dog eat dog world'' was its a dogey dog world.— Gabral
- I used to believe that I was the only person in the world who wanted to be the other sex.— Susan Davis
- I used to believe the oldest person in the world was 214. — Imaginative_Kidd