I used to believe that there really were elves living in a specific tree at our local park. I used to get really close up to the tree and listen as hard as I could, thinking I might be able to hear them.
A childhood belief about fairies

others believed things like this
- When I was five, I believed God was big as a tree, a tree being the biggest thing I could convieve of.
— Chris - I used to believe that the Doller Tree store was an actual tree.Anon
- I used to think that partridge in a pear tree was "cartridge" in a pear tree(christmas song)— Erica
- I used to think that the tree branches moving was making the wind, not the wind making the tree branches move.— Jenny
- I used to think that broccoli was a shrunken-down tree,Anon
- I used to believe that buckeyes (from the tree) were baby porcupines...— Minerva