My mother told me that if I bit my nails
the pieces would make holes in my stomach. I would stop for a while but pretty soon I would run to my mother and say" Feel my stomach. Are there any holes?" and she would know I was biting again.
A childhood belief about biting my nails

others believed things like this
- My Dad told me that biting my nails would result in a large toenail being attached to my stomach lining.— LindaAG
- when i was 6 my mom told me that if you bit your nails a hand would grow in your stomachAnon
- i used to think that biting my nails would make my fingers fall off! ;)— Cassandra
- If you bite your nails, a hand will grow in your stomach.— Miss Laura
- I used to believe that if I bit my finger nails, a hand would grow in my stomach. Anon
- when i was 6 i used to belive if u ate ur toe nails u would grow a foot in ur stomach— chris