I used to beleive that a "cathedral" was a type of monster.
My mother would sometimes sing me a lullaby called "Green Cathedral" . . . I would lay awake for hours, afraid, because of it.
A childhood belief about monsters

others believed things like this
- I thought the flying buttresses on a cathedral actually enabled it to fly somehow!Anon
- I used to beleive that if I picked my nose the boogie monster would visit me in the night + torture me— gingalinga
- I use to beleive that bitting my nails will give me powers to stop being afraid. — scaredy cat
- I used to be afraid of Tina Turner. I saw her as a monster or something like that.— Kinha SP
- I used to think an evil spirit type thing called Wango lived in my dog. I was terrified of that dog.— Franklin
- In kindergarden my friend told me that there were 24 hours in the day and 15 hours in the night.— Cari