My Aunt lost her arm when she was a baby due to a fire. She only had down to her elbow and she told me it was because she bit her finger nails and couldn't stop!! I believed that she had actually chewed her arm off and was VERY scared of that Aunt.
A childhood belief about general

others believed things like this
- i used to think my aunt sandra was aunt bannana.Anon
- my aunt used to tell me that pinapples made your eyebrows grow. i believed it till i was about 10.— Anna
- I was sad for many years because my aunt once told me I would go to hell for farting in church!— Tara
- my aunt told us there was a special chemical in the pool that would turn red if we peed in it.Anon
- I used to believe that if I bit my finger nails, a hand would grow in my stomach. Anon
- I used to be scared that if I chewed my cuticles and swallowed a piece of skin, I would become a cannibal. Anon