I thought that hiccups made you grow. Every hiccup streached your body a little bit, that is why babies would get them more than adults.
A childhood belief about general

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that it was possible to die from hiccups :]Anon
- I used to think that hiccups were caused by a frog in my chest who would jump and croak.— Elizabeth
- if you stand on your nose and sing the blues you wont get hiccups for a month.Anon
- my cousin uded to belive that hiccups were caused by the food in your stomach colliding.— Christine
- I used to beleive, that if you swallowed a seed the food would grow in your body.Anon
- I thought baby oli was made from pressed babies.Anon