when i was a little girl, in catholic school, the nuns would tell us that if you bite your nails they don't digest...when you die and they open you up, you'll have a belly full of finger nails. therefore, i never, ever bit my nails again!
A childhood belief about biting my nails
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that if I bit my finger nails, a hand would grow in my stomach. Anon
- 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
- I wasn't allowed to cut my nails on a sunday , don't ask me why.— martin
- That bitng my nails would cause worms in my tummyAnon
- I used to believe that red pistachio shells were the same as women's press on nails.— Bob