When I was about 6, I believed that all widowed women who dressed in black were witches trying to escape their sorrow by passing it on to others. I found I could thwart them by making them smile and thus turn them back into normal people.
A childhood belief about witches

others believed things like this
- Until I was 8 I used to think that women who wore eye liner were witches. — Will
- No passing zones on the highway. How come we just kep passing those signs? — Colleen
- When I was young,I used to believe all old people were witches..........— Baby
- I used to think the people who appeared on television lived in it and if I broke it they would escape. — Malika
- When I was little, I believed that sonic booms were from airplanes passing gas! haha!
— coconut - My friend believed that when lightening flashed, you better smile because God was taking your picture! — Linda from Southern California