My sisters convinced me that the dog in their Barbie collection, an Afghan hound, had hair that would turn to wood if I got it wet. I thought I wasn't doing it right.
A childhood belief about toys

others believed things like this
- I used to think an Afghan hound was a breed of terrorist dog that had to fight in the Taliban!Anon
- I used to believe that after I cut my barbie's hair, they will grow again. They've never grown :(— Duda
- I used to believe that if i cut of my Barbie dolls hair that it would grow back.— Zena
- I used to believe that if you got a splinter after awhile your whole body would turn into wood.Anon
- When I was younger I cut my Barbie doll's hair and wondered why it never grew back.Anon
- .. the knots in wood would turn into dinosaurs. I was petrified of pine cladding.Anon