My old baby-sitter oddly named farts 'churchies'. She mentioned this several times and, not knowing the correct name was fart, believed that only people who didn't attend church had bad gas.
A childhood belief about farting

others believed things like this
- when i was a little kid, i thought that the "baby sitter" was actually gunna sit on me hahaAnon
- I used to think farts were air you had breathed in and out loads of times and was 'used'Anon
- I used to believe that the oddly-shaped clouds were made from oddly-shaped sheep— Dickson
- i believed that the holes in swiss cheese were cow farts.— lily
- When I first met my husband, he thought women didn't fart. He was really surprised after he met me!!!Anon
- I thought that people were like cars because cars have exhaust pipes, and people fart.— Matt