I uses to believe that my Dad's finger was like a pencil he could write with it because there was dirt under the nail and I thought it was like the lead in a pencil.
A childhood belief about general

others believed things like this
- If you bit the end of a pen of pencil you would be poisoned by the lead or ink. Anon
- As a kid I used to believe that when you sharpened your pencil, the eraser on the pencil grew.Anon
- i was told that if you got stabbed with a pencil (by yourself or others) you would get lead poisoning.— waiting to die
- I used to believe that a half moon was gods finger nail, and his finger was pointing downwards.— clo
- I used to believe that when your pencil ran out of eraser that if you sharpened it it would grow a new eraser— Nikkie
- I used to think that the moon was God's toe nail, when it was in the shape of a crecent— Ms.imagination