My grandmother, sane to this day, 90 years old and counting, told me as a child that my hand would wag above my grave if I hit my mother. To the best of my knowledge, I never in my life hit my mother anyway - before or after my grans advice.However, it made me terrified to pass a cemetery, ( I had to look the other way) in case of skeletal greetings!
A childhood belief about people
others believed things like this
- that if you stuck out your tongue at your mother, your hand would stick up out of the grave when you died.— Elaine. London
- I used to believe that I couldn't pass by the cemetery at night because the dead people would wake up.— Marcos Carvalho
- My mother told me chewing gum was made from horses hooves!Anon
- That blue cheese was made by scraping mould off bathroom walls. My mother actually told me that.— sandee
- my mother told me if i ever swallowed chewing gum i'd turn into a pig, i believed this for many years.— stuart hayward
- When I was very young, I thought that God was married to Mother Nature, and that together they made weather.Anon