My Uncle told me that he used to have a hole in his bottom lip. This would cause his mouth to leak when he ate unless little men came and shut up the hole for him.
A childhood belief about eating

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that if you dig a hole in the ground and put pepper in the hole, the ground would sneeze.— Cookie
- I used to believe that if you told a lie, Dragonflies will come and sew your mouth shut. For real.— Casey
- i used to believe that dragonflies would sew your mouth shut.Anon
- i used to believe that drangonfly's would sew your mouth shutAnon
- I used to tape my mouth shut at night in case a spider would come along and make a web in my belly.Anon
- I used to believe that a cat's butt hole was on the tip of his tail.— PANTS