I used to believe that brocoli were little trees and that the Keebler Elves lived in them. I found out this wasn't true when I asked my mother, "Where do the elves live after we cut down their trees to eat them?"
A childhood belief about general

others believed things like this
- I convinced my sister that chocolate milk was made out of Keebler cookie elves, she believed me for a month— Rainbow Steel
- I used to believe wind came from trees. And when it was really windy, the trees were really mad.— Tiffany
- I used to believe that it wasn't wind that made the tops of trees move.. It was dinosaurs.— H
- I used to believe that the rainbow is produced by the elves' pot of gold— Santiago Gordillo
- i used to beleive that elves controlled traffic lights.— Jessica
- When I was little, I was thought that little elves controlled the traffic lights..— Rosie