When I was about five years old, I've asked my dad why is the sea so salty. He told me it's because a huge tanker full of salt turned over in the water. I believed that :-)
A childhood belief about water

others believed things like this
- when i was a child (of course)i used to believe that the sea is salty because God throws bags of salt into it.— Kafka
- I used to believe I had a guardian angel named Salty... Salty because I didn't know if it was a boy or a girlAnon
- I used to think that pickles grew naturally in the sea, and that's why the water in the jar was so salty.Anon
- when i was little, my mom told me if you ate to much salt, you'd wake up turned into a lamb. — Kristina
- When I was a kid, I use to believe, when I put salt in my bath water I will turn into a mermaid.— marletha
- I thought that veruca salt was green salt— Ninny