A religious friend of mine in grade 1 told me that if I pointed to a cemetary, my finger would shrivel and fall off. I didn't believe him, so for years, I would point at every cemetary I could find. This habit continued well into my twenties.
A childhood belief about people
others believed things like this
- If you suck your thumb it would eventually go black, shrivel up and fall off.— Charlotte
- Never point at a grave, if you do your finger will rot off.— KL.R
- My friend's sister believed the lyrics to Gazza's "Fog on the Tyne" were "Fog on the dinasaurs mine all mine"— Suzanne
- I used to believe that if you point at somebody you make holes in the air and the fairys fall over— Bob #1
- I remember once a friend of mine told me that when ever you hold in your pee it would make your balls stronger— Zao
- I once told a friend of mine that if you held in a smelly burp, it'd turn into a fart. She believed me.Anon