When I was six my mom told me that I am going to have to get my horns surgically removed before I 12 or they would grow into full antlers. I cried so hard she told me the truth that same day.
A childhood belief about general

others believed things like this
- My sister told me that if you had sweetcorn in your poo, you had six months to live! I cried for weeks — Billy
- My grandma told me and my sisters that the boogie man lived in her basement and if we cried he would get us.— Paulette
- That unicorns were real. They simply had invisible horns that only people with special eyes could see
— Katie - When I was little I used to believe that if you told a lie, your nose would grow in length. — Lluna
- when i was 6 my mom told me that if you bit your nails a hand would grow in your stomachAnon
- I used to believe if i told lies my nose grow like Pinnochio — Cindy