For a long time, until I was about twelve, I was convinced that my tongue was a seperate animal that lived in my mouth for the single pupose of cleaning my teeth. I thought that if I didn't feed it then it would die and so I made sure with every meal that the food was in my mouth long enough for the tongue to eat its fill.
A childhood belief about eating
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that if a dog stuck their tongue in your mouth, you would get worms no matter what.— ` [ A ] m a n d a .
- I used to believe that when you died no matter what your tongue hung out the side of your mouth. Anon
- I used to believe that if I didn't brush my teeth at night, ants would crawl into my mouth and eat my teeth.Anon
- My uncle convinced me that if you ate octopus, the suckers on the tentacles would suck your tongue out— Minnie
- i use to bleave that a belly buttion was another mouth on my body and i will try to feed it— come on down and lets play tpir!
- I thought for a long time that beaver and badger are the same animal— Ted Snow