I used to believe that falling leaves were dead butterflies, and I always buried them in the back yeard.
A childhood belief about plants

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that a street sign that read "Dead End" meant that there were dead people buried there.Anon
- When I was really young I used to think that dead bodies wouldn't start rotting until they were buried.— Katherine
- I thought that dead people were stuffed INSIDE their gravestone instead of buried in a coffin.— Sam Shiels
- I used to believe that butterflies would eat your nose.— Kate G.
- I used to think that butterflies made butter— Christophe R.
- I used to think butterflies were made of butter.Anon