I used to believe that when you lost things, it sometimes was because they had really vanished.
A childhood belief about magic tricks

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that when people died, they vanished into thin air. — KJ
- I use to believe that when I lost hair that I had cancerAnon
- I used to believe that once you reached a certain age you lost your imagination— Kiwi
- I used to think that slugs were just snails who had lost their homes!Anon
- I used to believe that when you lost your teeth, all of them fell out at the same time.Anon
- I used to believe that which ever way you looked it was north, never understood how people got lost :-S— Simon