In order to stop me from biting my nails, my mother (and a couple friends of her) used to tell me that nails would accumulate in my body, one over the other, and they would eventually fuse and form a long blade which would then come out of my throat and wouldn't let me breathe anymore. I still bite my nails to this day :-)
A childhood belief about biting my nails
others believed things like this
- i used to think that biting my nails would make my fingers fall off! ;)— Cassandra
- 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
- My Dad told me that biting my nails would result in a large toenail being attached to my stomach lining.— LindaAG
- I beleived that if i bit my fingers then the nails in my stomach would soon form a hand and rip up my insides!— Amanda T.
- If you bite your nails, a hand will grow in your stomach.— Miss Laura
- 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