My aunt & Grandmother used to tell me that whenever you were lying, your tongue would turn black. Whenever something was broken or missing in the house; they'd gather all of the extended family and tell the kids to stick out their tongues. I was told on several occasions that I had the dreaded "black tongue".....I would look in a mirror; no black tongue....and I thought I was not seeing what my grandma was seeing. I guess it was a way to get someone to admit wrongdoing....but I admitted to breaking my grandmother's desk just to make her leave us alone.
A childhood belief about general
others believed things like this
- that if you stuck out your tongue at your mother, your hand would stick up out of the grave when you died.— Elaine. London
- I use to believe that if you told a story/lie you would get a bump on your tongue.Anon
- 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
- I was told that if you sleep on your back you swallow your tongue...I have been sleeping on my side ever since— scotty la
- i always thought that people always died with their tongue hanging out— Ernesto Shredder
- When I was little my dad told me that if you drank too much coffee it would make your skin turn black. Anon