when i was little, i used to make faces, especially the one where you put your fingers in your cheeks and pull so you have a horizontally oblong-ish mouth. my mom told me that if the wind blew the wrong way, my face would stay like that forever.
A childhood belief about appearance
others believed things like this
- My mom always told me if I made an ugly face it would stay that way forever.Anon
- If you pull a funny face, the wind will blow and it will get stuck.Anon
- When I was a child and the wind blew strong I used to believe that someone was hiding under the bed.— FER
- I used to believe that trees made the wind, but its the wind that blew the trees!— victoria
- I thought rain was made when God was crying, and wind when God blew on the earth because it was too hot.— Andy T
- If you pulled a face, and the clock struck on the hour, your face would stay in that position.— Jo V...NL