I used to think, for some reason, that you wern't actually allowed to go into graveyards without an adult with you, so if I ever went into my local cemetery, which was a churchyard cemetery, I always imagined there was a priest inside the (non-catholic) church lurking around and spying out the windows(stained glass) who would come out screaming and yelling if he saw me and chase me out of the cemetery.
A childhood belief about church

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that I couldn't pass by the cemetery at night because the dead people would wake up.— Marcos Carvalho
- I used to believe the local Catholic church was Disney Land.— Sherri
- i used to think bugs could sting you through closed glass windows.Anon
- I used to think that GLASS and GRASS was the same thing. I always wondered why windows weren't green...— Alex
- I used to think that the priest at church was JESUS.
He had a beard.... it made sense— Joe B - I used to think gravy was made in graveyards.Anon