I used to believe that an oilskin actually came from an animal called an Oil.....
A childhood belief about general

others believed things like this
- When I was a child, I used to think that if you eat an animal, you become that animal
— Hmza - I used to believe an artichoke was an animal and we only ate its heart. — Laura
- I used to believe that if you swallowed your gum that you would crumble up and smell like a dead animal !!!!— jordan
- I used to believe that people that are mascots or in big animal suits were serial killers— Amanda
- I used to believe that a vitamin was a small animal
only recently I have found out that it is not true... :)— Sylwia - I thought for a long time that beaver and badger are the same animal— Ted Snow