Many children are natural fantasists I think perhaps because their imaginations have yet to be clobbered into submission by experience.
I used to be a Catholic. I left because I object to conversion by concussion. If you don't agree with what they teach you get clobbered over the head until you do. All that does is change the shape of the head.
A lot of Irish people perform. They perform in drawing rooms. They sing songs and they play piano.