When I was little, my brother told me that if I wouldn't go to sleep, the witches would get me. To this day I still can't sleep without the covers on me no matter how hot it is because of the witches. Thanks, bro.
A childhood belief about witches

others believed things like this
- My mum told me and my brother that we were adopted and that our real mothers were witches. Thanks mum.Anon
- I always had to sleep with my feet under the covers or else speed racer would drive over them.Anon
- When I was young,I used to believe all old people were witches..........— Baby
- If you don't smash egg shells witches use them as boats.— Sarah
- I used to believe that 3 witches lived in my stomache and I ate to feed them.— Meara
- Until I was 8 I used to think that women who wore eye liner were witches. — Will