When I was young my cousins told me that when you had an ear ache, it was because there was an earwig inside of your ear. I had always had problems with my ears, and still do, so that scared me. Especially when one of my youngers brothers friends actually HAD had one in their ear as a baby.
I'm still scared of earwigs to this day, although I know they are not in my ears!
A childhood belief about general
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that "Earwigs lived in your ears", scared
me to death for years.— Will Chapman - I used to believe that earwigs crawl in your ears— Janice
- I was certain that "earwigs" were basically toupees you wear on your ears. Anon
- Just this moment I learned that earwigs do not go into your ears, i'm twenty-four.— Sheila
- I used to think that earwigs were a type of toupee that you wear behind your ears.— Elise
- I used to think that if I held in a sneeze, my ears would turn inside out.— Lori