I was afraid of the dark, but I believed that if I pulled my blankets up over my head the "monsters" couldn't see me. I spent a many sweltering summer nights sweating under blankets.
You need a category for fears.
A childhood belief about monsters

others believed things like this
- I was always afraid of dracula so i would put tons of blankets over my neck— Lissa
- That blankets had some magic quality that made it so you could become warm and stay that way— Michael
- Thunder was the angels shaking their blankets out. Rain was the fairies crying.— wolfie
- I used to believe that at the beach town where we spent the summer, they took the sidewalks in for the winter.— Missy
- our grandfathers bald head was because our granmother pulled it out when she got mad at him— daniel copeland calif,u.s.
- I use to cover my head at night because I thought monsters would give me a bad hair cut while I was sleeping!— Amy