Back when I was a little kid, I thought that if I poured a "potion" (that was really mud and other random things found in the yard) on the deck in the backyard, it would transform into an airplane and I could fly to the North Pole where I would meet Santa. I attempted this multiple times, needless to say I was very disappointed.
A childhood belief about magic tricks

others believed things like this
- I thought Santa was the President of the North Pole. It was stupid I know
lol— Lynn Wright - I used to believe that the North Pole was the coldest place in the world and the South Pole was the hottest...— Logica
- When I was 5 years old, I used to believe Poland was snowy and cold all year round, like the North Pole. — Sara
- On TV game sows when they said the winners were chosen "at random" I thought random was a town.Anon
- I thought I would fall through the cracks in my grandmother's deck.— Hannah
- I believed until near adulthood that when I was 6 or 7 I had actually flown for several feet in my back yard. — Jane S Poole