I used to be scared of the mano peluda/ the hairy hand. My grandma would say that if we were bad that the "mano peluda" would grab us from under the bed. She used to scrape the wall with her toe nails and say that it was the "mano peluda" coming to get us.
A childhood belief about under my bed
others believed things like this
- If you bite your nails, a hand will grow in your stomach.— Miss Laura
- when i was 6 my mom told me that if you bit your nails a hand would grow in your stomachAnon
- I used to believe that if I bit my finger nails, a hand would grow in my stomach. Anon
- 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 believe that if someone take his bath with a hair shampoo, their body will become hairy.— roslin
- My mum always told me to stop chewing my hair or else i would get a hairy chest! hee, hee! x— Kirsty