After reading a label on a small bottle of Holy Water, I thought it could bring my dead grandfather back to life. I didn't dare try it though, I guess I was too scared. I only realized it a few years later after reading the label again.
A childhood belief about afterlife

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that a wake was something you go to to try to bring the dead person back to life.Anon
- I used to think watering dead flowers would bring them back to life.— Natasha
- I used to think that you could bring dead flowers back to life if you watered them.Anon
- When I was little, I thought the Indian princess on the Land-O-Lakes butter label was God or Jesus.— Butterflyzz
- I used to believe that if you died you could have 'an operation' to bring you back to life. — Mikey
- When I was about 5, I thought that English was the reverse reading of Turkish.— sel