I used to believe that if you picked your nose too much it would fall off and it would bleed all the time and never stop. So I would go around and say " You better stop picking your nose or it will fall off"!!
A childhood belief about picking my nose

others believed things like this
- I used to believe if you picked your nose, your brains would fall out your nose.Anon
- when i was little my mum used to tell me if i picked my nose too much my brain would fall out!!! think it did— Maz
- When I was a child my father warned me that if i picked my nose, my eye would fall out!— ras
- i was always told if i picked my nose my brain would fall out! i belived it for years!Anon
- My mother used ot tell me that if I picked my nose the 'Nose Spider' would bite my finger off.— Melanie
- When I was in Kindergarten I was told if I picked my nose my nose will go into eternal bleeding— Sam