there was this really funny belief among all us friends that if you put the remains of a sharpened pencil in a mug of water,it would turn into an eraser by the next day!so all of us kids would go the terrace with glasses of water and pencil sharpenings!
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
- I used to believe that when your pencil ran out of eraser that if you sharpened it it would grow a new eraser— Nikkie
- I used to believe that if i splashed water on the wall during a bath, the water would turn into spiders— justin
- 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
- I used to believe that if I ate too many watermelons I would turn into water...— Peter