My mother was raised in a strict Catholic household. When she was little she thought the words to "Hark the herald angels sing ..." went "Hark to hell the angels sing ..." Something her brothers and sisters still tease her about.
A childhood belief about hymns

others believed things like this
- Did anyone else sing "Hark, the hairy angels sing"?— Jill
- My mum said that when I used to sing "noahs arc" at school I would sing "who built the arc, no one, no one"— Clare
- I used to believe that angels painted the sky.— Jessica
- My grandmother used to tell me that thunder was the angels bowling.— laf
- That the "glitter" in crispy snow was angels— HH
- that when it thunder'd it was angels rolling barrels around heaven.— daniel copeland calif,u.s.