It's not so much that I used to believe, but I used to imagine that when I had an itchy back, the itch itself was like those covered wagons you see in cowboy movies, and that the hand that scratched the itch was like Indians, and my back was the prairie that the Indians chased the covered wagons over!
A childhood belief about skin

others believed things like this
- i used to believe that when i had an itch or a tickle, it was because there were ants crawling beneath my skin— Willa
- I used to believe that ants walked inside your body and that's what caused an itch.Anon
- i used to believe that they really killed Indians on westerns.— tripod tod
- i used to think bales of hay were housing indians— alyssa
- I was convinced that Indians had dug the Grand Canyon.— Tom Sackett
- Until I was about 16 I thought that Palestinians were actually called "Palaced Indians."Anon