When I was little my mom told me that if I continued to pick my nose then the finger bird would swoop down(he always knew when you did it..and could come out of air vents) and bite off your fingers and then you'd just have little nubs. And you can't color with nubs.
A childhood belief about picking my nose

others believed things like this
- my grandpa told me if you pick your nose too far then a snail will bite your finger off haAnon
- My sister told me that if I picked my nose there were snail creatures inside of it that would bite my fingers.Anon
- My mother used ot tell me that if I picked my nose the 'Nose Spider' would bite my finger off.— Melanie
- I used to believe that if you picked your nose far up enough, a snail at the top would bite your finger.— Jenny
- that there was a sharp toothed snail inside my nose, waiting to bite my finger off— diana
- My mom told me that if I picked my nose, my finger would stay there someday!!— baxter