I used to believe that a house elf lived in my kitchen because we had wooden walls and one piece of wood resembled a tiny door. So i thought that this house elf would go out every night and avoid being seen because he was too modest.
A childhood belief about fairies

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that when you moved house you swapped house with the person moving into your old house.Anon
- When i was small i used to think god lived on top of my house and the devil lived right underneath it.— Missuss D
- I used to believe that a little boy lived under my house and ate all the poop 'cuz he had nothing else to eat.— RockSorceress
- I used to believe that California was my house, not the state I lived in.— Katie
- I used to believe that the moon lived on top of our house because I could always see it from the window.— Classic NYer
- I used to believe that it rained when God was upset and that all the birds lived together in one big house.— Rozy