I used to believe that by walking between the right trees in the forest I would be transported to a magical land. I also believed that the markings on the underside of bark were secret codes and messages from fairies.
A childhood belief about fairies

others believed things like this
- I was convinced that paper could only be made out of Birch trees (because they had white bark).Anon
- Boogers came from magical booger fairies that mined them over night and put them in your nose in the morning.— Vivian
- If you step on the cracks in tiles when walking through a street, fairies will die.— Maddie
- When I was young,I thought the lyrics "Secret Agent man" were actually "Secret Asian Man".— M.M.B.
- I used to think that
"The land of make believe"
was
"The land of baked beans."— Baked Bean! - I believed that fairies lived in lamp posts - their front doors were the little holes where the key fits.— Janice