My mum used to take us to the park to visit the 'magic cheggy tree'. We held hands, closed our eyes and shouted 'Izzy wizzy lets get busy CHEGGYS' and conkers would come raining down from the tree. Even though I'm now 31, my mum still insists it was really magic.
A childhood belief about magic tricks

others believed things like this
- When I was five, I believed God was big as a tree, a tree being the biggest thing I could convieve of.
— Chris - I used to believe that the Doller Tree store was an actual tree.Anon
- I used to think that partridge in a pear tree was "cartridge" in a pear tree(christmas song)— Erica
- When I was a child I used to believe in the magic— Mohammed Samoan
- I used to believe that mall directories were magic because they always knew where you were.— eric
- when i was 6 i used to believe that birds were magical creatures and used magic to fly— Serriu