My grandmother told me that if you picked your nose and ate the snot then the bogies would turn into little white worms in your tummy (uuugh!). I still believed it even when my Mum said it was a lie - I thought she was just protecting me from the awful truth.
A childhood belief about picking my nose
others believed things like this
- My mother told me that if I picked my nose it would turn into a pigs trotter!— Lynne S :o)
- My mum told me that if you picked your nose and flicked it on the floor then it would turn into a monster!— MadMack
- I used to think bogies were made of dead flies which had flown up my nose.— Kate
- When I was in Kindergarten I was told if I picked my nose my nose will go into eternal bleeding— Sam
- My grandparents always told me that if I picked my nose too much, my nose would get bigger.— The Mortal Elf
- Thanks to my Nan I believed if I picked my nose my head would "cave in!"— Tilly