My grandfather had lost part of a finger in some sort of accident. When I was younger, he told me that a snail lived up in your nose and if you stuck your finger in your nose the snail would bite it. He claimed that he had stuck his finger too far up his nose and that the snail had bit it off!
A childhood belief about picking my nose
others believed things like this
- my grandpa told me if you pick your nose too far then a snail will bite your finger off haAnon
- I used to believe that if you picked your nose far up enough, a snail at the top would bite your finger.— Jenny
- that there was a sharp toothed snail inside my nose, waiting to bite my finger off— diana
- My sister told me that if I picked my nose there were snail creatures inside of it that would bite my fingers.Anon
- My mother used ot tell me that if I picked my nose the 'Nose Spider' would bite my finger off.— Melanie
- My mom told me that if I picked my nose, my finger would stay there someday!!— baxter