I used to believe that butter cooled hot foods. Every time I couldn't eat something because it was too hot I would put butter on it and wait for it to cool. By time I ate whatever I was eating it was cool so therefore I kept believing that butter cooled hot foods.
A childhood belief about general

others believed things like this
- My mother told me if I ate too much butter I'd get worms. I didn't eat too much butter...— Dicky
- I used to believe that peanut butter was lobster poo.— PaulH(nz)
- I used to think that butterflies made butter— Christophe R.
- I used to think butterflies were made of butter.Anon
- My daughter thought that ear wax was peanut butter.— Bobbiemac
- I believed butterflies taste like butterAnon