My mum used to tell me that if you ate your bogeys they would form a big ball of them in your stomach and the doctor would have to give you surgery to remove it.
A childhood belief about picking my nose

others believed things like this
- my mom made me believe that if i swallowed my chewing gum, it would form one big wad in my stomach.— mimi
- 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 used to think eating raw potatoes would give you "BEZORES".
Our family doctor told me this— Moodycop - I used to believe that there was a shop in switzerland that sold bags of bogeys with sugar for eating— laura
- I used to think volleyball was actually called "ball-y ball"Anon
- I thought Maria Carey's 1998 ballad was 'I'd give my arms' instead of 'I'd give my all'.— Briony Maggs