I used to be told that if I didn't eat enough, my Mother knew a little boy who also didn't eat, and his stomach eventually ate him up
A childhood belief about eating

others believed things like this
- My mother told me if I ate too much butter I'd get worms. I didn't eat too much butter...— Dicky
- My mother didn't want me outside at night so she told me i had to come in or else 'the night air would get me'— Dan
- i used to believe that mother and father didn't sleeped— yacine.tah du 91
- I used to believe that my mother didn't sleep and that she was a super hero!— AntoineBoom
- My sister once asked her mother why she didn't paint her black....Anon
- i didn't beleive this, but a kid my sister knew thought if he screamed in a really high voice, he ran faster.Anon