When I was ten I had about a dozen warts on one of my arms and another one on my leg. Anyway, I can remember thinking that warts are caused when blowflies bite you. I also thought that the name of those tiny tumours which are caused by Human papillomavirus (HPV) was spelt 'worts'.
A childhood belief about skin
others believed things like this
- I used to believe you got warts if you touched a toad. — laura
- I believed that kissing a toad would give you warts, but it never stopped me from a dare.— Kirstin
- i used to beleive that if you chewed gum it woul give you warts in your mouth my sister told me this— sunney jim of the pearl
- when i was little i thought that my hic-ups were caused by little man on the back of my tounge, yodelingAnon
- When I was a kid I thought that the wind was caused by the trees fanning their leaves...— GDP
- My mom used to tell me that ice cream caused polio.Anon