I used to believe that inside each streetlight there was a little stick-like person called a magic-doom. i thought that thye lived in there and that they would turn the lights on and off for us.
I also thought that they would jump out at night with parachutes and play games all through the night.
A childhood belief about in the street

others believed things like this
- I used to think that board games were called bored games because you play them when you're bored.Anon
- I thought traffic lights were controlled by little men who lived inside them. Anon
- i thought that if you broke the law a officer would come and hit you with a night stick— Ron
- Once, at night time, I saw the flashing lights from an aeroplane and I thought it was a UFO.Anon
- I always thought that a little person lived inside each mailbox waiting to take my letter to its destination.— Anne
- i used to think that my sister was a genie and flew a magic carpet at nightAnon