I used to think that "string him up" meant that you took someone high up on a tree and used string to tie them to it.
A childhood belief about speaking

others believed things like this
- My mother, the good Catholic, thought that Jesus, being a string bean (supreme being) was really skinny.— Mark D
- When I was five, I believed God was big as a tree, a tree being the biggest thing I could convieve of.
— Chris - I used to believe that the Doller Tree store was an actual tree.Anon
- I used to think that partridge in a pear tree was "cartridge" in a pear tree(christmas song)— Erica
- I used to think that the tree branches moving was making the wind, not the wind making the tree branches move.— Jenny
- i used to believe that sex meant love and that having sex meant the two people would live happily ever after.— amy