I used to believe that paprika was dried chicken blood because that is what my dad told me when I was about 5. I didn't find out it was red pepper until I proudly raised my hand in Home Economics Class in middle school to tell the whole class that it was dried chicken's blood.
A childhood belief about general

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that if you buried a chicken bone in the backyard it would grow a chickenAnon
- When I caught chicken pox, I thought it was down to me eating too much chicken.— Helen
- I used to believe that all meats were chicken. I called everything chicken. :)— Girlfloyd
- I thought that eating chicken gave me muscles (chicken and muscles sound the same in Mandarin).— NG
- when I was young, I heard that blood had iron in it. I thought blood was red because it was rusty.— Hunter
- Split walnuts... i used to think they were dried pig noses!!— SaMmI LaMy