An eccentric woman on our street had mouth surgery once, and told the neighborhood children that the stitches in her lip were from a dragonfly and that dragonflies sew your mouth shut if you let them land on you. I believed this for years.
A childhood belief about creepy crawlies
you weren't the only one
23 of you believed this
- I used to believe that dragonflies could sew your lips together so that you couldn't eat. — Lori
- i used to believe that drangonfly's would sew your mouth shutAnon
- i used to believe that dragonflies would sew your mouth shut.Anon
- I used to believe that dragonfilies could sew your lips closed.— Nova
- i used to believe that dragonflies sewed your fingers together and then sucked your blood— Clare