My mother has a long scar running down the small of her back along her tailbone, and my older sister always told me that that was the remnant of a tail-removal surgery and that the offending body part was stowed away in a drawer in my mother's bureau. I believed from around the ages of 4 til 10 or 11 that if I was naughty my mother would get her tail out and beat me with it.
A childhood belief about general
others believed things like this
- We told our little sister that she had a long bushy tail and she fully believed us for ages!!Anon
- I used to believe that if you hit your tailbone, a tail could grow out of it.— Ida
- When I was young, I believed that because my mother was born in New Mexico, that I was part Mexican.Anon
- I used to believe that if i watched TV for too long, my eyes would turn square. As told to me by my mother.— Alex
- When i was little i used to think that a birth mark was the place on the body where you came out of the mother— bipbop
- my mother told me if i ever swallowed chewing gum i'd turn into a pig, i believed this for many years.— stuart hayward