In an effort to keep me out of the vicinity when she was scaling fish, my mother told me that if a fishscale landed on my skin, more would grow until my entire body was covered in scales.
A childhood belief about dangerous food

others believed things like this
- My sister ate fish food one day and she was convinced that she was going to grow scales— leohauoli
- I used to believe that contact lenses were made out of fish scales— ddm
- I used to believe that the United States covered almost the entire planet.— RAB
- My mother told me that if I kept sucking my thumb I would grow another one out the side of the first one.Anon
- I used to believe that a fish cake was a fish in sponge and coated in icing. I believed this until I was 9.Anon
- i used to beleive the ice cream man was a fish man - becuase i hated fish.— jordan