When I was about 5 I thought if I tried hard enough I could lay an egg like a chicken. So naturally I checked the toilet every time I had a poo...but no eggs ever came along, alas.
A childhood belief about special powers

others believed things like this
- In my youth,I was always convinced that my chocolate easter eggs came from my uncles chicken farm!— Jamsie
- I used to think croutons were hard chicken. Anon
- I used to believe that only brown eggs came from chickens. I thought white eggs were made at the store— Destiny
- When I caught chicken pox, I thought it was down to me eating too much chicken.— Helen
- I thought that eating chicken gave me muscles (chicken and muscles sound the same in Mandarin).— NG
- I used to believe that if you buried a chicken bone in the backyard it would grow a chickenAnon