I was smart enought to know that you killed a vampire with a wooden steak, but I was a little confused how that worked. Perhaps they got splinters in their gums and their fangs fell out so they couldn't feed any more. It was quite a revelation to discover that it was a actually a stake.
A childhood belief about vampires

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that boys couldn't be teachers because they weren't smart enough. — Azz
- I used to believe that when a person was "fired" from their job, that they were literally burned at the stake.Anon
- After your teeth fall out when you're a kid, your gums fall out. Then you get new gums and teeth.— Erin
- i used to believe that smart people were smart because they drank a lot of teaAnon
- I could NOT understand why, if a pen worked on paper, it couldn't also write in thin air.— Can you guess what it is yet?
- For the longest time I used to believe that "Dracula" was a gigantic gorilla with fangs, not unlike King Kong.— Mark Cidade