When I was little, I used to believe that if I rubbed my index fingers together (in a back an forth motion) while they looked like an 'X' it wouldn't rain and we could go out and play.
A childhood belief about special powers

others believed things like this
- I thought your fingers would grow back if they got cut off— Nate
- My dad thought when he was little, rain was caused by army guys in the clouds with rain guns. — Daughter of the Weird
- I used to believe I could control the weather by singing rain rain go away or blowing the clouds away.— Shannon
- I believed that the rain would melt everything...I was terrified to go outside in the rain! — Cris
- I thought god looked like the face on the play-doh can!— Jonathan Franz
- My mom said she had eyes in the back of her head. I looked and looked, but never found them.Anon