When I was little, I thought Saudi Arabia was 'Salty Arabia', and that all those sand dunes were made of salt. It made sense to me.
A childhood belief about places

others believed things like this
- i used to think salt was made of sand— hibiscus
- i thought salt made food cold, since pepper made it *hot* — cattiva
- when i was a child (of course)i used to believe that the sea is salty because God throws bags of salt into it.— Kafka
- When i was 6 years old i had a dog named Sandy. And i thought she was made of Sand.— Billy Bob Joe
- I used to believe I had a guardian angel named Salty... Salty because I didn't know if it was a boy or a girlAnon
- I used to think that the priest at church was JESUS.
He had a beard.... it made sense— Joe B