Oh yeah, i ALSO used to believe (again, from watching too much Sabrina, I dream of Jeannie etc) that if i pointed my finger and just said the right words I could do spells - unfortunately I never could those right few words!
A childhood belief about special powers

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that all four-letter words are bad words.Anon
- My mom used to say that if I said bad words, poop would appear in my mouth— Nina
- I thought "prison" and "prism" are the same words as each other.Anon
- I thought the word economical was actually two words: eek and omical.
— Nancy M. - When i was in kindergarten, i used to think that i invented the words million and billion— Comonsnadama
- I used to wander what my name would be in other languages. I thought that names worked the same way as words. — Simon