A friend of mine spent a lot of time in church as a child. The hymn lyrics were displayed with an over-head projector. As the pages were swapped, a huge hand appeared mid-air. Logically, she assumed this was the hand of God.
A childhood belief about hymns

others believed things like this
- My friend's sister believed the lyrics to Gazza's "Fog on the Tyne" were "Fog on the dinasaurs mine all mine"— Suzanne
- I used to think that my right hand wasn't my right hand anymore if I turned around.— Mike
- When I was small, my brother would bug me and say that if my hand was bigger than my head, I had a tumor.Anon
- I always believed as a child your stomach was a big hand which squeezed your food out through your bum....— amc
- I used to believe that I could actually cut the clouds with my hand.Anon
- I used to believe that if you put your hand in a venus fly trap it would eat it.Anon