My neighborhood kids and I used to believe that to stop rain, all you had to do was put to knives crossed under a table and it wouldn't rain.
A childhood belief about weather

others believed things like this
- 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 used to think that Rain Man had something to do with Singin' in the Rain.Anon
- i used to believe that i was the only person that could see rain— katie
- I used to think that snow was rain still in the bag.— Robert