I used to believe that by whistling, the wind would blow harder...so up until the 5th grade when I found out this wasn't true, I kept on whistling and my friends would ask me what I was doing.
A childhood belief about weather

others believed things like this
- Grandmother told me if I whistled in the bathroom the devil would come get me because I was whistling for him.— Peanut @ Lake Tawakoni Tx
- I used to think that if you ate cat food you would die. I found out it wasn't true
— Bob#4 - The trees moving made the wind blow.— little jimmy
- When I was a kid, I used to believe that windmills were what caused the wind to blow. silly me :)— Adrian Z. Ontario, CA USA
- I used to believe that the trees moving caused the wind to blow.— naomi
- If you pull a funny face, the wind will blow and it will get stuck.Anon