My mom told be that when you got the hiccups, it meant a little elf was jumping around in your stomach. I tried to calm him down by sitting still or laying down but the hiccups wouldn't stop!
A childhood belief about general
others believed things like this
- my cousin uded to belive that hiccups were caused by the food in your stomach colliding.— Christine
- I used to believe that it was possible to die from hiccups :]Anon
- I used to think that hiccups were caused by a frog in my chest who would jump and croak.— Elizabeth
- if you stand on your nose and sing the blues you wont get hiccups for a month.Anon
- When my mom would say that my eyes were bigger than my stomach I thought she meant it literally.— Amanda
- I used to think that tampons were meant to absorb women's urine so they wouldn't have to go to the bathroom.— Koyaanisqatsi