Many of us kids were told, when we were small, that we each had a snail living deep up our noses, and if we stuck our fingers far enough up there, we'd find out how the nose-snails were different from the regular dirt-snails: They had teeth, and would bite the tips of our fingers off.
A childhood belief about picking my nose
others believed things like this
- My sister told me that if I picked my nose there were snail creatures inside of it that would bite my fingers.Anon
- my grandpa told me if you pick your nose too far then a snail will bite your finger off haAnon
- I used to believe that if you picked your nose far up enough, a snail at the top would bite your finger.— Jenny
- that there was a sharp toothed snail inside my nose, waiting to bite my finger off— diana
- I used to think that slugs were just snails who had lost their homes!Anon
- When i was little, (4 or so) i convinced myself that snails only ate apple peels.
I have no idea why.— Terracrafty