My preschool teacher told me that if you bit your nails and ate them(which at that time i think we all did) that you would get a big hole in your stomach.
A childhood belief about biting my nails

others believed things like this
- when i was 6 my mom told me that if you bit your nails a hand would grow in your stomachAnon
- My Dad told me that biting my nails would result in a large toenail being attached to my stomach lining.— LindaAG
- i used to believe that my preschool teacher had eyes in the back of her head.Anon
- If you bite your nails, a hand will grow in your stomach.— Miss Laura
- I used to believe that if I bit my finger nails, a hand would grow in my stomach. Anon
- when i was 6 i used to belive if u ate ur toe nails u would grow a foot in ur stomach— chris