When my mum was little, boys kept pulling her pigtails. It turned out there was a rumour going around that she had holy pigtails and pulling them was good luck. I suspect that one was started by an enemy!
A childhood belief about hair
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that if the wind changed when you were pulling your face that you would stick like that— Farino
- I used to believe that "carpooling" meant you were outside the car and pushing/pulling it to your destination.Anon
- I used to believe that we got sausages from pulling them out of pigs bums - all neat and tidy. Mmm— L. Webb
- When I was young I thought that after pulling out off a petrol station the car would go faster— Amine
- I used to think that the river police were there to stop naughty people from pulling the plug out.— Linda
- I used to think the song"jesus, oh what a wonderful child so holy, meek and mild" was "so holy, Mickey Mouse"— Stephani