When I was a child I liked to play marbles with my friends and sometimes I arrive very late to stay playing and my parents used to talk to me and tell me not to play anymore but I kept playing until once my father got angry and told me if I am still in That was going to seem like a goblin to me and he was going to take me as I was only 7 years old, I believed him and I never played again for fear of what he told me.
A childhood belief about toys

others believed things like this
- When I was a child I used to believe that stand up pianos actually told jokes as well as playing music.— L MAN
- my sister told me that bunkers on golf courses were for children to play in while their dads played golf.— Julie
- When I was a child, I believed that thunder was God playing on the computer.
— Gabriela - My parents told me that when the ice cream van was playing music, it means he's run out of ice cream :(Anon
- My dad told me that playing basketball makes you taller. Basketball players are tall, so I believed him.Anon
- I was told as a kid that when it thundered, God was playing basket ball. LOL! — Tony