My nana used to tell me that if i didn't eat all my dinner i would get oliliwogoly-itis where all my toes would turn to marbles, drop off and roll away.
A childhood belief about general

others believed things like this
- my nana told my brother that if he continued sucking his thumb, it would turn into a matchstick. — tracy g
- i used to believe "eaves drop" was actually "ears drop"— sophie
- i used to belive that 100 was the biggest number in the world "i got at least a hundred marbles."— dan harris
- Mom told us that if we didn't eat every single bite of our veggies at dinner time, we'd get colon cancer.Anon
- My Nana told me that moths lay eggs in your hair. I still hate moths to this day.— Paula
- i used to believe that peas were toes — DJ