My grandmother told me that if I didn't get my cuticles pushed back that they would grow over my nails. Our neighbor at the time lost his thumb nail and she told me that was what had happened to him. I had great cuticles as a kid.
A childhood belief about general
others believed things like this
- I used to be scared that if I chewed my cuticles and swallowed a piece of skin, I would become a cannibal. Anon
- I didn't know whether nail files were supposed to make your nails sharper or duller.Anon
- 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
- My mother told me that if I kept sucking my thumb I would grow another one out the side of the first one.Anon
- My great grandmother died when I was 9. I didn't go to the funeral because I thought she'd be a skeleton. — Angela