I used to believe there were spiders in my nose. My mother told me this when I was really little to keep me from picking my nose. I looked at her horrified and almost unable to move with tears running down my face and asked her to take them out for me.
A childhood belief about picking my nose
others believed things like this
- My mum always told me not to pick my nose and eat it because spiders would grow in my tummy......— Ben
- My mother used ot tell me that if I picked my nose the 'Nose Spider' would bite my finger off.— Melanie
- I used to think, that if you're picking in your nose too much, you push your eye out.— Joanna
- When I was younger, I used to think that picking your nose was against the law.Anon
- When I was in Kindergarten I was told if I picked my nose my nose will go into eternal bleeding— Sam
- My grandparents always told me that if I picked my nose too much, my nose would get bigger.— The Mortal Elf