When eating a boiled egg with its shell still on, after I had finished eating the egg, my mum always told me to make a hole in the bottom of the shell so that the witches wouldn't be able to use them as small boats and break into peoples houses and steal things!!!
How bizzare is that!?!
A childhood belief about dangerous food
others believed things like this
- You must break the bottom of egg shells after finishing a boiled egg or witches will use them for boatsAnon
- I didn't understand about boiled eggs until my Mum explained I wasn't supposed to eat the shell as well.— Chris
- If you don't smash egg shells witches use them as boats.— Sarah
- I used to believe that the sky is just a very thin blue egg shell— Alan
- I used to think shell macaroni was sea shells.— Don Northrup
- I used to beleive that a mermaid would be singing to you when u listned to a shell. — vprincess