I seem to remember the nuns at school (?!) telling us to take care NEVER to hold your nose when you sneezed, or your brains might squirt out your ears. This worried me...
A childhood belief about general

others believed things like this
- I used to believe if you picked your nose, your brains would fall out your nose.Anon
- my mum once told me if you picked your nose your brains came out!!!!— smiley : )
- if you pick your nose your brains will fall out!Anon
- My wife used to tell our kids that if you pick your nose your brains would fall out— grampy
- When I was in elementary school nuns cam to our school. I thought that 'nun' meant they had no religion.Anon
- Mum used to believe there were men, women and nuns and nuns used to have wheels under their habits!— Chris - Sheffield