when I was little my parents took me to a National Park with lots of waterfalls, as each waterfall had a name I asked my dad for the name of one particular waterfall and he told me that the name was "the one that eats all Silvias" (that's my name) so there was NO WAY for me to go closer to the waterfall, for years I thought of the danger I was in, 'cause if I didn't know the name of the waterfall and actually gone close or touched the water I could have been eaten by the waterfall.
A childhood belief about excursions

others believed things like this
- At the ocean's horizon there was a giant waterfall.— Stephanie
- I remember a girl in my kindergarten class told me she wanted to be a waterfall when she grew up.Anon
- I used to believe that lizards were little dinosaurs ready to enlarge of they touched the water — Mark
- when the sign on the highway said do not pass and dad did i thought he would be in great dangerAnon
- I asked my father what holy water was. He told me it was the priest's bathwater. — Gwen
- On family road trips, my parents always told me that water towers were filled with chocolate.— Edith