One of my uncles was born with the first two fingers on his left hand fused together. When my cousins and my sister and I were children, he would tell us that they got that way because when he husked corn on the cob, a piece of the "silk" had gotten stuck between his fingers. Even now, some fifty years later, I think of that EVERY time I husk corn on the cob.
A childhood belief about general
others believed things like this
- I used to beleive that corn was pigs teeth. And when it was corn on the cob, I thought it was the jaw.— Brianna
- I beleived that if i bit my fingers then the nails in my stomach would soon form a hand and rip up my insides!— Amanda T.
- When I was little, I had tiny toes and beleived that ducks mistook them for kernels of corn and eat them.— Seguin
- I used to think that pickles were made out of frog skin and corn was old peoples teeth.— mandy
- My uncle told me that if I didn't wash my ears when I took a bath, corn would start going out of them.— Ebod
- My sister told me that if I picked my nose there were snail creatures inside of it that would bite my fingers.Anon