I used to think the reason people cried when they cut onions was because the onions were alive and who ever was cutting them was killing them.
I also thought the reason we praid before a meal (with onions in it) was TO pay our respect to the onions!
A childhood belief about general

others believed things like this
- When I was a child, I used to believe that onions came from tangerines.Anon
- When I was a kid I loved to eat onion rings, until I realized that they were made with onions.— Beth Pärssinen
- To get me to eat liver and onions, my parents used to tell me it was brown chicken. And I loved it.— Mallory
- I used to beleive that liver (as in liver and onions and gravy) was rhinocerous meat.Anon
- When i was little for some reason i thought that all people from china knew karate.....yeah.— sneakydean
- I used to believe that people's brains differed in colours. I always wanted purple brains for some reason.— Katrina