When I was around six I had a book of magic tricks that was also a pop-up book that served to carry around little things used for performing the trick (you take them out of little pockets in the pictures in the book). Well, there was one picture that took place in a restaurant or something and there was a dollar sticking out of a character's pocket that was removable. Thinking it was for a trick, I removed it and the tab on the end of it says "Put it back, you thief!" I freaked out and shoved it back in the pocket, thinking the book had really saw me take the dollar and thought I'd been trying to steal! I was afraid to even look at that page for a while.
A childhood belief about magic tricks

others believed things like this
- i thought that we were just a big story book that ended when we died— samantha
- I thought Kaa's name from The Jungle Book was spelled "Car" and that he had a brother named Truck.Anon
- I used to believe if you read a book in the dark, you would go blind.— Ellen
- I believed the book Babar was how my name was spelled.— Barbara
- I used to believe that copying definitions out of a book counted as plagiarism!Anon
- I read in a book that if you ever swallowed toothbrush bristles then you would get appendicitus!— Amy