When I was a kid I used to believe that sharks kill by slicing you with their dorsal fin. That was because of it's shape and the the way it looked as it slices through surface of the water. It didn't even occur to me then that they actually ate you.
A childhood belief about general

others believed things like this
- Waves are whales and sharks moving up and down under the waterAnon
- when i was little, i used to think that if i didn't run to my bed, imaginay sharks would come and eat me.— blah
- i used to believe you could buy banana's that would be cut into slices when you opened them— sophia
- i used to think if you stared long enough at the sun (until it looked blue) you could kill it— sean
- I didn't think you could put out a fire with hot water - only cold water would do.— Katti Pytt
- I used to believe that human lived inside the planet earth and not on its surface.— Giancarlo