The belief that If I didn't go to sleep the humpty-backed leprachaun would come into my bedroom, sew up my lips with bootlaces and take me off to live with the other fairies under the hawthorn tree at the bottom of our garden.
A childhood belief about fairies

others believed things like this
- i used to believe that humpty dumpty lived in our towns water towerAnon
- I used to believe that elfs lived in the hedge at the bottom of my garden!!
— The milky bargirl - I used to falsely believe that planting a fruit pip in the garden would actually grow a tree or bush.— Natasha
- When I was little I believed that when I put lipstick on my lips, the lips grew.— Alba Águila Castelló
- When I was little I use to belief that if we swallowed the pit of a fruit, a tree would grow inside us.— Maya
- I use to believe that teachers would live at school and sleep under there desks :) lol— Stephanie