My mother and aunt always told us that if you pouted and stuck out your lower lip, that the great bird of paradise would land on your nose and leave droppings on your lip.
A childhood belief about birds
others believed things like this
- My Dad use to tell me if I pouted and stuck my lower lip out, a bird would come and poop on my lip.— Tom
- My mother used ot tell me that if I picked my nose the 'Nose Spider' would bite my finger off.— Melanie
- My aunts use to tell me that when I pouted the crows would come and bite my lips. Anon
- My mother told me that if I picked my nose it would turn into a pigs trotter!— Lynne S :o)
- When I was in Kindergarten I was told if I picked my nose my nose will go into eternal bleeding— Sam
- My grandparents always told me that if I picked my nose too much, my nose would get bigger.— The Mortal Elf