When I was 9, I started playing cello and my first teacher told me if I ate it I would go blind. It took me ten years to figure out she was lying to me just so I wouldn't try to eat it.

Rachel

Just like Pinocchio. I used to believe that if you told a lie your nose would get big.

Lauren

when i was young my two cousins held me down and put nail polish on my nails and then one of them said "oh no we've put the red polish on him what are we going to to" now really worried i said "why wat does the red nail polish do" she told me that red nail polish is poision i ran crying to mum who assured me they were lying

jo

this strangness has been passed down the family

rape is when little boys tie little girls to trees now ofcourse my momy was terified when my mema told her this but not as much as if you go outside and the owls see you the'l bite your scalp off

Anon

Well this one isnt exactly a belief of my own but as a big brother im quilty for my little sister believing still at the age of 8 in a second dimension that exists right here next to our own called "marioworld". Its a place where one is invisible to
the ones still in the real world and they cant hear you either.
Maybe im cruel but i just couldnt stand listening to her whining and so i took a toy wand and cast a spell that transported her to this marioworld, and then i pretended to not see or hear her at all. I even got my friends in it too and we have had quite a few laughs during these past years. Maybe ill tell her when she turns nine..

teemu

My nanna had a gold sovereign necklace and used to tell me that she had it because she was the Lady Mayoress of the town where we lived. I actually believed her and would tell people this. Then, when she had a burglary and all her jewellery got stolen, she told me that she wasn't the Lady MAyoress anymore, and I got really upset.

Anon

i used 2 think that if i lies 2 my mum my tounge wud turn green so i was 2 scared 2 lie 2 her! shes always make me show her my tongue if in doubt!

weeman

I have a couple and mostly they are just what my sister told me. She told me that there was a grey cloud that hung over cemetaries and if you tried to go in, it would eat you. Also, one day we were playing outside (I was probably 4-6) and she started dancing around saying she was doing a rain dance and it started raining. I was amazed. I didn't find out until I was in 10th grade that she had felt a rain drop. When I was about 8, I would sleep in her room on the weekends and she told me that everything in her room would get cold at night, so she would put it on the bed with us. One time there was a blanket on the floor and she made me pick it up because it was cold.

Cassie

when i was about 5 my parents told me that when u were in bed, and u were bad an blue alien spider would come up and bite u thenu would become an alien spider too! i was never bad because of that lol

good grl

I used to believe that the little white bruises you sometimes get on your nails meant you'd told a lie and I had a bunch, thanks Mom :)

Nicole

When I was little my mom told me I was allergic to chocolate, potatoes, and peanuts. I recently found out I'm not allergic to any of these things and my mom told me I was to prevent me from being overweight. I'm 22 years old.

Rachel R

When I was around 4 my best friend told me that a giant butterfly ate her old swing set, and that was why she got a new one.. and I belived her.

Trista

My friend, a rabid liar, told me in the first grade that he had tied up my dad in his living room. He tols me he put his baby brother on his head to make him look taller and put on a disguise. He also explained that our computer was having trouble because his baby brother had drooled on the keyboard. I half believed him for a while.

Scott

When I was in primary school, one of my classmates was a bully (his father was a policeman). He would threaten me that he would my get my dad arrested(without any crime?? ; ) ).I was forced to give him my stationaries for him not to do so. How I beleived him then, I feel like thrashing him now.

ashish

Whem I was about 3 or 4, my sister told me that I was adopted and was actualy Robbin Robin William's son.

Mike

When I was in seventh grade I believed there was a left handed screwdriver. My teacher told me to go home and look for one. Come to find out theres no such thing.

Anon

When I was about 6 my older sister told me I was adopted and that my real parents were the Indians who owned our local sweet shop and were currently going through the courts to try and get me back. When I asked mum, she laughed, and I ended up believing this until I was 10yrs old. I never used that sweet shop.

Mercedes

a couple of years ago (2002-2003) my mum got a boyfriend who had a son around 9 yrs old. there is a village near me called thurgoland and i told him there was big frog-like creatures called thurgos what attacked you. one day we were walking in a wood when his dad went into this abandoned barn and i told him there was a thurgo nest in there....he got so scared he almost peed his pants! he is now 10 and still believes it!

jay

When I was in second and third grade, I had a grandiose delusion . . . well, to be more accurate, I didn't have it, I thought of it, and convinced my best friend, Jonathan, that it was true.

I told Jonathan that this other kid (whom I really didn't know that well) named Eric had super ESP powers, and that I was his "manager", basically. Jonathatn devoted so much time and research into ESP so he could be my 2nd manager in command . . . wow, he must have one heck of an inferiority complex by now.

John 117

My father told me that if I lie my mouth will stink.

Bhadra