Up until I found a “How To Do Magic Tricks” book in the school library in second grade, I wasn’t sure whether magicians really had magical powers or not. I heard adults say “It’s all a trick.”, but they would never be able to explain how the tricks actually worked, and there were certainly people in TV shows and books who could do real magic.
The author of the book knew that a lot of kids think this, and the introduction to the book actually spelled out “It’s all just tricks, it isn’t real.” for our benefit.
A childhood belief about magic tricks
others believed things like this
- I believed the book Babar was how my name was spelled.— Barbara
- I thought Kaa's name from The Jungle Book was spelled "Car" and that he had a brother named Truck.Anon
- when i was 6 i used to believe that birds were magical creatures and used magic to fly— Serriu
- I thought cartoons were for kids and "real-life programs" for adults.— Ichigo
- When I was a child I belived that cars worked with magic— Marc Pujol
- I used to believe if you read a book in the dark, you would go blind.— Ellen