***I used to believe that the candyman was someone who would come and steal your candy or poisen it.
A childhood belief about monsters

others believed things like this
- I believed that if you ate snot, it would poisen you. And you would die.— demonrachel
- I thought if you took some candy and buried in the yard, you would grow a candy tree.Anon
- I thought that the barber sign meant candy because I thought it looked like a candy cane.Anon
- I used to believe that if i threw something as high as i could into the air god would steal it.Anon
- I was convinced my cat was going to steal my money at night. Anon
- My das convinced me that the birds which sat on our trees wanted to steal them. — belle