When I was about 7, a cousin told me that if I swallowed my 'Adam's Apple' I would certainly die. I can vividly remember rapidly developing such a phobia about this that every time I swallowed I had too feel my throat to make sure the said piece of anatomy was still in position!
A childhood belief about general
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that an Adams apple was a piece of apple that was stuck in someone's throat.— Ron Aaron
- My Mom used to tell me if I swallowed an apple seed I would grow an apple tree inside my stomach!— Marg
- When I was little my uncle had a huge adams apple. He told me he'd swallowed a marble.— Stacey
- I used to believe that if you swallowed an apple seed, a tree would grow in your belly.— Rachel
- I used to be scared that if I chewed my cuticles and swallowed a piece of skin, I would become a cannibal. Anon
- I used to believe that in China, instead of Adam and Eve eating an apple? They believed it was a banana.— smartygirl