My father said to me: they are bacteria and eggs when you bite your nails. The eggs will go in your stomach and hatch into worms, eating any form you digested until you starved.
I told mum and she said that he was kidding but I should stop biting my nails.
A childhood belief about biting my nails
others believed things like this
- My Dad told me that biting my nails would result in a large toenail being attached to my stomach lining.— LindaAG
- I beleived that if i bit my fingers then the nails in my stomach would soon form a hand and rip up my insides!— Amanda T.
- If you bite your nails, a hand will grow in your stomach.— Miss Laura
- 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
- When I was young, I thought that rice was actually ants eggs! Didn't stop me from eating it though (: -@— Doh!
- i used to think that biting my nails would make my fingers fall off! ;)— Cassandra