I believed there were witches who took children away, and that they looked like balls of fire that entered houses through the cracks in the windows and doors.
A childhood belief about witches

others believed things like this
- i always thought it was Grape Balls of Fire instead of Great Balls of Fire— Courtney
- I think thunder is the clouds fighting and bashing eachother and lightning is fire balls from the sun.— Crazy Cowgirl MADI
- I used to believe green houses were made of icicles, because that is what they looked like from the road. Anon
- I believed that fairies lived in lamp posts - their front doors were the little holes where the key fits.— Janice
- I used to believed that the sign on houses 'to let' was a toliet and that there was lots of them!— Grace Lyon New Addington
- Sometimes God looked like Rafi, the children's singer, and sometimes like Ella Fitzgerald.— Annie