Because of a poem, I believed that if I always put pepper in my hair, witches would leave me alone, because, you know, they sniff you before they eat you, and the pepper would make them sneeze and you'd be able to get away!
A childhood belief about witches

others believed things like this
- I believed Dr. Pepper was pepper-flavored medicine and was afraid to drink it.Anon
- I used to believe that Dr. Pepper actually tastes like Black pepper. I'm still afraid to try it.Anon
- I used to believe that if you dig a hole in the ground and put pepper in the hole, the ground would sneeze.— Cookie
- I used to think that pepper was only used to mark where you'd put the salt.— BK
- i used to think that you used pepper spray to cook— c-dogg
- I thought that Dr. Pepper was made out of hot peppers.Anon