I always bit my nails really bad when I was little. One day my cousin, who is much older then I am, was at my house and seen me. He told me that there was poisen on my fingers and my fingernails and if I continued to bite them that the poisen would go down into my stomach and then spread throughout my body. He had me scared to death! I would forget what he said and bite my nails and then start crying cause I thought I was going to die.
A childhood belief about biting my nails
others believed things like this
- If you bite your nails, a hand will grow in your stomach.— Miss Laura
- when i was little my sister told me that when i bite my nails it would cut through my skin and i would die! — nn
- I beleived that if i bit my fingers then the nails in my stomach would soon form a hand and rip up my insides!— Amanda T.
- I believed that if you ate snot, it would poisen you. And you would die.— demonrachel
- ***I used to believe that the candyman was someone who would come and steal your candy or poisen it.— C H R I S T E N
- when i was 6 my mom told me that if you bit your nails a hand would grow in your stomachAnon