My aunt told me that when eating an orange if I was to accidentally eat some of the peel I would get worms in my eyes. I still avoid eating oranges.
A childhood belief about eyes

others believed things like this
- I usesd to believe that eating orange peel would give you worms. so used to eat it anyway out of spite.— troy
- I used to believe that eating raw potatoes would give you worms, like dogs get.— A Wild Cowgirl
- I used to belive that if I ate orange peel it would expand in my stomach and blow me up.— Paul
- I used to believe eating fish enables me to live underwater and eating veggy makes me prettier!— Melody
- My friend believed that eating bread crusts or eating mustard will give you curly hair.— Linda from Southern California
- i used to think that eating carrots would make your eyes glow in the dark— nik