I believed that men didn't go bald because ther hair fell out or stopped growing but that the hair would grow through their head and come out of their ears and nose! Old bald men always had hairy ears and noses.
A childhood belief about hair

others believed things like this
- I believed that if you ate a piece of your own hair, a new strand of hair would grow on your head.— Ryo
- My friend convinced me that if I used a bar of soap to wash my hair instead of shampoo that I would go bald.— Michelle
- our grandfathers bald head was because our granmother pulled it out when she got mad at him— daniel copeland calif,u.s.
- I used to believe that if I didn't clean my ears that carrots would grow inside.— Gilian
- When I was a kid I believed that if you swallowed a fruit pip that treees would grow from your ears.— Liz Smith
- I used to believe that my head was filled with hair waiting to grow.— Poppy