When I was younger, I use to bite my finger nails until one day my mom told me that they would never grow back if I kept doing it. I believed her, and till this day, I have never bit my finger nails.
A childhood belief about biting my nails

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that if I bit my finger nails, a hand would grow in my stomach. Anon
- If you bite your nails, a hand will grow in your stomach.— Miss Laura
- 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
- I used to believe that if my finger was ever cut off, it would grow back.— Chrissy
- when i was 6 my mom told me that if you bit your nails a hand would grow in your stomachAnon
- 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