When I was a child, I heard the term Blackmail. So I ask my mother. She told me it was a letter that was in a black envelope. Ok, not going to argue. It came back to haunt me when my child asked me the same thing, and of course, I gave him the same answer my mother gave me.
A childhood belief about speaking

others believed things like this
- When I was a child I used to believe that cows gave ready butter.— Bane
- When I was a child I used to believe in the little mouse Perez, who gave you money for teeth.
— Chayma - I thought that blackmail meant sending black envelopes to people.Anon
- That the earth was inside a gigantic envelope, and the stars were pinholes in the envelope.— Kara
- My sister once asked her mother why she didn't paint her black....Anon
- When i was a child, i used to believe that when people ate black beans, they became black— Mar'ia Elena