When I was little I was told that wishes rarely come true. So I thought I'd be very clever, and from then on I always wished for the opposite ("I wish I get yucky food tonight")... ironically because I knew wishing did not work.
A childhood belief about magic tricks

others believed things like this
- I used to believe, that since I wished upon a wishing well, I really would grow up to be a dinosaur.— Azi
- I used to think that if you ate cat food you would die. I found out it wasn't true
— Bob#4 - Ironically my parents were born on the same day; so growing up, I thought all parents had the same birthdays. Anon
- When I heard "Don't Come Out Tonight(Bad Moon on the Rise), I thought they were saying Bathroom on the Right.— helen.sellers
- My friend and I used to believe that we could gain special powers by pressing our bellybuttons and wishing.— Andrew
- when i was a lil kid i used to think salt was dead lice that people but on there food and i never knew why
— jessica diamond