When I was about 3 or 4, we lived in the country on a farm and my Dad would "shoot out the stars" for years I belived that my Dad DID in fact have the power to shoot out the stars...when I was about 12 I found out that he was just firing a tracer bullet from his rifle...
A childhood belief about special powers

others believed things like this
- i thougt robers could shoot into the phone and the bullet would come through and hit me— knowledge
- I used to believe that they shoot the chickens we eat one by one at the farm.— A
- when i was was little i thought that pop stars were stars in space would pop— roman honytoast
- I used to think stars were really shaped like you draw stars!Anon
- When I was 10 I thought that if you smoked once God would shoot you with a lightning bolt!— tHOMAS
- I used to believe that the sun, stars, and moon were following me when in a car.— Toy