i used to believe that if i study for a test and used the same pencil for studing that i used for the test, that the pencil would remember the answers and help me do good on the test.
A childhood belief about magic tricks

others believed things like this
- As a kid I used to believe that when you sharpened your pencil, the eraser on the pencil grew.Anon
- everybody else were robots and I was a human test!
— Chas - I used to believe that whenever I got an F on a test it stood for fantastic. — megan
- If you pick Dandelions then you wet your pants. Honestly...I've never tried and I'm not going to test it!— Charlene
- If you bit the end of a pen of pencil you would be poisoned by the lead or ink. Anon
- i was told that if you got stabbed with a pencil (by yourself or others) you would get lead poisoning.— waiting to die