I used to love sloshing about in the bathtub, but I thought that if I overdid it, I would summon up "the Kraken", a huge, blood-red octopus with fangs. So, whenever I thought that i might be sloshing uncontrollably, I would hop out for a minute or two.
A childhood belief about bathrooms

others believed things like this
- when I was young, I heard that blood had iron in it. I thought blood was red because it was rusty.— Hunter
- I know this isnt a huge funny belief, but I used to think that all spiders were poisonous. I love spiders now!— Sammy
- that pickles were octopus legsAnon
- When I was a young boy I thought when we cried or when we laughed we won or we lost one minute of our life. — loulou83
- I used to think that 'testicles' was the word for the arms of a squid or an octopus. — Emily
- For the longest time I used to believe that "Dracula" was a gigantic gorilla with fangs, not unlike King Kong.— Mark Cidade