Once when I was young my Dad came home one day and a hubcap was off his tire. The car looked funny and I asked him why it looked different. He told me that an Indian had shot the hubcap off with an arrow. I believed this for a quite some time.
A childhood belief about cars

others believed things like this
- My dad told me when I was little that my belly button was "Where the Indian shot me"Anon
- My mom said she had eyes in the back of her head. I looked and looked, but never found them.Anon
- I believed that if I looked too long in the mirror admiring myself the Devil would appear.— Paul Elletson
- I used to think that aeroplanes were called "arrowplanes" because they were shaped like an arrow.— Eduardo
- Street signs with the upward pointing arrow was for airplanes. — Tammy
- I used to believe that guns shot out blood because everytime somebody shot a gun in a movie you saw blood.Anon