When I was 4 or 5, I loved gems. I always wanted to see them, and then I would look at them. Well, you know how gems are mined out of caves and stuff, and then they are all cut into brilliants and stuff? I used to believe that gems were found, ALREADY cut.
A childhood belief about landscape

others believed things like this
- Boogers came from magical booger fairies that mined them over night and put them in your nose in the morning.— Vivian
- I used to think that robbers had keys to every house and that's how they got in to take your stuff— Emma
- I used to believe if I concentrated hard enough I could move stuff.
*sigh*
— Zog - I used to think that sharks were dolphins who were really mean on steroids and ridiculous stuff like that.— Tyler Leber
- my brother used to think a serial killer was someone that put nails and stuff in your cereal. lol :)Anon
- I thought a highwayman was just someone who helps pave the road and stuff like that— Nate