My grandfather told me that when he was little, he thought that if you stood on an electric cord, it would block the flow of electricity.
A childhood belief about physics

others believed things like this
- i used to believe (because my dad told me so) that AM stood for "awful music" and FM stood for "fine music"— skydvgrl
- My mother told me that if I lay too close to our electric radiator (heater) my brains would melt.
— robyn c. - I thought the women in Prisoner Cell Block H were actresses banged up in prison themselves.— Reb Kean
- my grandfather told me that soy sauce was bug juice.Anon
- When I was small my Grandfather told me that the reason I had freckles was from throwing pebbles in the sewer!— All Grown Up Now!
- I use to believe if I ate something electronic Id have electric powers — jack L