After watching a vampire movie where the vampires could be killed by a silver stake or holy stuff, I attached a cross to a screwdriver (silver stake) and slept with it every night to keep the vampires from coming.
A childhood belief about vampires

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that when a person was "fired" from their job, that they were literally burned at the stake.Anon
- I used to believe that if you slept with the covers covering your neck, vampires couldn't bite you. — Moot
- I thought the Civil War was the Silver War.— Vicki J.
- when i was small i use to believe my parents were vampires— marine student 4
- I used to believe that the people who take your blood at the doctor's office were vampires. — Andy
- I used to believe brussel sprouts were holy because they had a cross marked in the top when mum boiled them!— Ali Brill