When I was a child I used to believe that the elf lived in the tree that was in my house, this is what my parents told me to climb the tree since the elf was going to make me angry with him and that he could do something bad.
A childhood belief about fairies

others believed things like this
- When I was five, I believed God was big as a tree, a tree being the biggest thing I could convieve of.
— Chris - I used to believe that the Doller Tree store was an actual tree.Anon
- I used to think that partridge in a pear tree was "cartridge" in a pear tree(christmas song)— Erica
- My grandma told me she used to think pigs came out of tree stumps.Anon
- my nanna told me if I swallowed gum that I would have a gum tree growing out of my tummy— ms pouty
- I used to think that the tree branches moving was making the wind, not the wind making the tree branches move.— Jenny