My dad told me if you ate banana skins you would get elaphantitis(huge swollen legs)
And the wind blowing in the telegraph wires was the devil singing
A childhood belief about dangerous food
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that old rotten black banana skins were dogs lips!! — T Cross. Bournemouth
- i used to believe that if i looked at trees, the wind would start blowing. Anon
- In Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody, I used to think they were singing "Beelzebub has a devil for a sideboard!"Anon
- I used to believe I could control the weather by singing rain rain go away or blowing the clouds away.— Shannon
- I was told as a child to eat the dark parts of a banana, because it was really brown sugar.Anon
- I used to believe that old black Bananna skins were dogs lips that had fallen off.— Tracey Cross