I thought that when water was heated it turned into tea. People boiled the kettle, poured it into a teapot and the magic was done.
A childhood belief about around the house

others believed things like this
- I used to think what heated the food in the pan was the boiling water, not the heat under it.— Mario
- My Sister Used To Believe She Could Fly By Driniking Water From A Magic Forton. I Told She Couldn't.— Zoe
- I used to believe that the rock thing they used in the sport Curling, was a tea kettle.— Kaninchen
- I believed they put heated coils in lakes for the ducks to swim in the wintertime.Anon
- I used to believe that tapioca was made from boiled used kleenex.— Abby
- I somehow got the idea that if I boiled a rock, it would come to life. My dad disproved that...Anon