I used to wonder why Great White sharks were called that as what was so great about them if they eat people (this was before I knew great could also just mean big.
A childhood belief about general

others believed things like this
- I believed when young that horses with white faces were sick. My dad a great sense of humour— John Cavanagh
- I thought that grape juice was called "great juice". Anon
- I used to let go all my balloons so my great grandma would get it in heaven— lissa
- When I was little I used to believe that God looked like the Great Gazoo (the alien from "The Flintstones").— Susan
- "God is good, God is great, lettuce thank him for our food Amen"— pj
- I used to think that the word Great was added to Britain because they won the Second World War.— Age