My granny always told me that I would grow horns on my head if I lay down and eat..when she wasn't looking, I would lie down and chew my food, feeling and searching for the horns on my head.
A childhood belief about eating
others believed things like this
- That unicorns were real. They simply had invisible horns that only people with special eyes could see
— Katie - i was told when i was young that if i swollowed gum my stomach would grow teeth to chew it— gammie
- We put food in our mouths, so naturally I believed my stomach was in my head.— Timb
- I used to believe that my head was filled with hair waiting to grow.— Poppy
- I used to believe that if I ate my boogers a booger tree would grow out of my head!— Kimmy G
- my sister when she was little thorght head lice tried to borrow into her head to get to her brainAnon