When I was little, my friend's mother told me there was a snail that lives inside of your nose, and if you pick your nose, he will chew off your fingernail, and after that, he would bite your finger 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
- that there was a sharp toothed snail inside my nose, waiting to bite my finger off— diana
- I used to believe that if you picked your nose far up enough, a snail at the top would bite your finger.— Jenny
- 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
- I heard a mother in the street tell her young son not to pick his nose...because his head would cave in. — Ruby