My nephew, age four, recently told me that eyebrows are the work of the devil, who created them so people could make angry and mean faces. Otherwise, we'd be happy and good all the time.
A childhood belief about eyes
others believed things like this
- my nephew used to believe that when people died, they just needed new batteries.— p-daddy
- I believed if I prayed for the Devil, he would start being good for God. — Jackie
- i used to believe the news readers on TV could see us and i'd make funny faces to try to "distract" themAnon
- I used to believe that if you used the kids' shampoos that said 'no tears' it would make you happy.— Emmy
- i thought when you flushed, it went down to hell and that's what the devil fed the people in he..— Barb.
- my aunt used to tell me that pinapples made your eyebrows grow. i believed it till i was about 10.— Anna