i used to believe that caskets look like ordinary wodden boxes, rather small and they would have inscriptions like "handle with care" and "this side up". of course you would have to fold the dead people to get them inside....
i have never been to a funeral in my childhood.
A childhood belief about people

others believed things like this
- I used to think that at funeral homes, dead bodies were propped up on the furniture, just hanging out!— pam
- I used to believe that a funeral organist was the person who collected the body parts of the deadAnon
- I thought that dead people were stuffed INSIDE their gravestone instead of buried in a coffin.— Sam Shiels
- When I was small I thought people were actually inside the TV and that we could take them out.Anon
- I used to believe that a street sign that read "Dead End" meant that there were dead people buried there.Anon
- I used to believe serial killers were actually people that went round slipping poison into cereal boxesAnon