When I was five, I used to believe that on some nights a wicked witch would come upto my house and peck on my window outside my bedroom with her index finger, but never enter the house fortunately. I got that idea from some picture story books that were read to me, where a child that was in bed on a windy night thought that a wicked witch was tapping on his window, but as it turned out, it was just the branches of a tree hitting the window. I did not understand the second part of that story and I still believed that there were witches around even though my my tried to explain it. Fortunately, I got over the fear of witches within two years.
A childhood belief about witches
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that the moon lived on top of our house because I could always see it from the window.— Classic NYer
- I used to be afraid that "boney Legs", a witch from a story Lived in the toilet. Anon
- I knew lightning could come in through my bedroom window and kill me.
— Cyn - When I was 3, my neighbor told me she was a witch and she said Godzilla was going to step on my house.— Grayson
- When I was little I thought a widow was someone who stares at you through a windowAnon
- I thought the white circles you see when looking at a bright window were what atoms of air look like.— H.