My brother told me that if you ate a slug you'd be able to fly. Naturally curiosity overcame me, and I only discovered he was lying after trying to eat one.
A childhood belief about special powers

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that if you crossed your fingers when you were lying, you weren't really lying.— jo
- I used to believe my middle name was and. At age 12, I discovered that it was actually "ann".Anon
- I used to believe disneyland was under my sister bed. I was well dissapointed when I found out she was lying!— Joe B
- I used to believe fog was caused by cows smoking cigars. How could mom be lying?!— La Duchesse
- I used to believe that you could naturally have dark hair with blonde streaks.Anon
- I used to think that pickles grew naturally in the sea, and that's why the water in the jar was so salty.Anon