My mum used to tell me that the fairy on top of the christmas tree was a friend to Father Christmas, and so if i was naughty she'd tell him. i didn't like that fairy.
A childhood belief about father christmas

others believed things like this
- We didn't have a chimney in our house. Father Christmas had to come in through the letter box.— Ginnean
- I was told that for every christmas carol i sang before christmas time santa would give me one less present!— K
- that the nose fairy, evil cousin to the tooth fairy, would come and take your nose if you were bad— Mark "Minky" McManus
- I used to think that partridge in a pear tree was "cartridge" in a pear tree(christmas song)— Erica
- Do you really mean to tell me that father Christmas is a myth?
Finally......— Peter (Aged 70) - When I was little, I thought the tooth fairy was a personal friend of my mom since she was a dentist.— Jess