I used to bite my nails a lot. Every time I got a stomachache, I would imagine the little crescents of my nails poking into the lining of my stomach. Unfortunately, I could never stop biting my nails.
A childhood belief about biting my nails

others believed things like this
- My Dad told me that biting my nails would result in a large toenail being attached to my stomach lining.— LindaAG
- If you bite your nails, a hand will grow in your stomach.— Miss Laura
- i used to think that biting my nails would make my fingers fall off! ;)— Cassandra
- i was told that if i kept biting my nails i would grow hairs on my tongue i was 10 yrs old by the way— charlotte anderson
- when i was little my sister told me that when i bite my nails it would cut through my skin and i would die! — nn
- when i was 6 my mom told me that if you bit your nails a hand would grow in your stomachAnon