I thought you could make candles out of earwax. It made sense. They were made out of parafin wax and beeswax, so why not earwax?
A childhood belief about general

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that earwigs lived on earwax, and that they would crawl into my ear canal and eat my brain.— dodyskin
- As a kid, I use to believe that candles were made out of ear wax.— CC
- I used to think that the wax statues at Madame Tussauds were made of recycled candles and crayons.Anon
- I used to think that the priest at church was JESUS.
He had a beard.... it made sense— Joe B - I used to believe that broccoli grew on trees. It looks like a tree, so it made sense, right?— Catherine...
- when i was 2 or 3 believed that i had lots of animals in my tummy it made sense my mum had baby in hers.— kjc