I used to believe that just touching bug-killing poison would result in you dying in an hour. I once was at my village, and I accidentally touched a plant which was all sprinkled in said poison. I spent a lot of time worrying that I was going to die at any moment - I didn't know how much time an hour was!
A childhood belief about people

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that a quarter after the hour was 25 minutes after the hour because 25 cents = a quarter.— Marni
- I used to believe the "hair" in artichokes was poison.— Dawn
- i used to think guns shot poison bulletsAnon
- I used to believe that if you sniffed a really stinky fart, it would poison your insides and die.— Fartcheeks
- i believed that carrots with milk was a deadly poison until i was 11.— Jennifer
- When people talked about serial killers, I thought that they put poison in your cerealAnon