when I was little, my mother told me that telling lies would make your tounge turn black. When I noticed the veins underneath my tounge in the mirror, I just knew it was starting to happen.
A childhood belief about general

others believed things like this
- my brother told me that if i ride my bike with my mouth open i will swallow my tounge. Anon
- 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 little my dad told me that if you drank too much coffee it would make your skin turn black. Anon
- If you had a mouth ulcer it's because you've been telling lies.— David Smithers
- I used to believe that there were red and black spiders underneath the table in the toilet.— Phil
- When I was a wee one I believed dogs were either black or white underneath thier coat....It was the 60's.— maddog