I used to believe that when someone "bought a piece of land" they actually had to cut it out of the ground with a knife...!
A childhood belief about landscape

others believed things like this
- I used to think that
"The land of make believe"
was
"The land of baked beans."— Baked Bean! - i beleived that when someone bought a new house, they would swap with the person they bought it from— c
- I thought ground beef was the meat they scraped off the ground at the slaughterhouse. Yuck.Anon
- I thought the England was EDGE-land but england was ENG-landAnon
- I used to believe that if you dig a hole in the ground and put pepper in the hole, the ground would sneeze.— Cookie
- I used to believe Chucky would come out of my toilet, stab me with a knife, and kill me. :(
I hate Chucky. — Bijan