When i was a kid one of my mom's friends had her arm amputated off at the elbow. It had healed up since the last time i saw here with the arm that it was a clean nub. I believed she could take her arm off and put it back on like a magic trick. Similar to the severed thumb trick.
A childhood belief about general

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that a hat trick in football was achieved when a player scored a goal with their head!— Andy
- I called every body part my elbow. For example if my leg hurt I would say my elbow hurt.— Kady
- I used to believe that seals were dogs that had amputated legs.Anon
- My friend told me that if you sucked your thumb, your skin would get all mushy and your thumb would fall off.— Lauren
- I used to think that my belly button was where I was once shot and that the navel was a healed up bullet hole— Tony
- When I was child I used to believe the future going to be similar like in the film Back to the future part 2 — Frankie