I saw a mention of many people dying under the guillotine when I didn't yet know what a guillotine was. I imagined a huge stone slab that the revolutionaries used to crush a whole bunch of prisoners at once.
A childhood belief about history

others believed things like this
- When i was young, i used to believe that when i ate a stone, a tree would grow in my stomach— -yacine-91-
- I used to believe that Metal music was when a bunch of people would bang metal together to make noise. Ha ha.— Kassandra
- I used to believe that every single slightly round stone r pebble was a fossilised dinosaur egg.— Dino Hunter
- when I was little I believed that if I put a white stone under the pillow with my tooth I make more moneyAnon
- That you had to marry your sibling. During this period of time I devoliped a crush on my brother.— don't worry I'm a girl
- I thought my age started at 4, because I couldn't recall any mention of my age before.Anon