When I was little, my dad told my mom just for fun that if she bit nails, the nails would eat up her brain...Of course I didn't bite nails, but my brother did, and that was my explonation why he was so dumb.
A childhood belief about biting my nails

others believed things like this
- when i was little my sister told me that when i bite my nails it would cut through my skin and i would die! — nn
- If you bite your nails, a hand will grow in your stomach.— Miss Laura
- my brother used to think a serial killer was someone that put nails and stuff in your cereal. lol :)Anon
- I didn't know whether nail files were supposed to make your nails sharper or duller.Anon
- when i was 6 my mom told me that if you bit your nails a hand would grow in your stomachAnon
- i was told that if i kept biting my nails i would grow hairs on my tongue i was 10 yrs old by the way— charlotte anderson