I used to believe that when I ate porrige, i had to hide the buttereye in the middle so that the fox would not take it. Just to be safe, i locked to door too.
A childhood belief about dangerous food

others believed things like this
- i used to believe that if i crawl under my bed i would be locked in. like a jail.— K.N.C
- My sibs and I thought that the screen door was called the "scream door" so Mom could yell at us through it. — Kyle
- When I was in kindergarten, I used to believe that they locked the teacher's in the teacher's lounge at night.Anon
- When I was little, I always believed I was safe from the big bad wolf because I lived in a brick house.— Beth
- ‘Unadulterated’ meant that something wasn’t rated 18+ and was therefore safe for kids— Evie
- I used to believe that hydrangeas were so called because rangers hide in them.— Ross