my mom used to tell me that when a girl had her period she could not wash her hair..cause if she did the blood would run to her brain and kill her...needless to say...once a month i had dirty hair...lol
A childhood belief about periods

others believed things like this
- When I was little I thought that dying your hair means you kill your hair.Anon
- I use to believe that your hair grew because you wash i.e like watering a plant — HJON
- I used to think that everybody's hair was black and if you had blond hair, you dyed your hair.— ~_~CoolKid93_~_
- I was told that if i didnt wash my hair regularly it would turn green— Mimi Screami
- My friend convinced me that if I used a bar of soap to wash my hair instead of shampoo that I would go bald.— Michelle
- My mom told me that if I didn't wash my hair black widow spiders would come live in it.— grew up in Nebraska