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So, this morning I simultaneously burped and farted. Which reminded me that, as a small child, my mother told me that IF I did that, I would implode :eek: I believed this for quite some time.

This further reminded me of an ex who , as a child, was told by her father that IF she pressed her belly button too hard, her bum would fall off :eek: ( this left her with a phobia of having her navel touched which persists to this day)

The above led me to wonder what other fantastic tales / facts folk were told as kids ( or have told their kids) with no basis in fact whatsoever :) ( ignoring the obv, Santa,Tooth fairy etc)
 
I was told that I would go blind if I didn't leave "IT" alone.....:D
 
I was told as a child if you pull the tail of an animal ( had a few dogs at the time) there eyes would pop out! Believed it for many years but now have passed it in to my little one who finds it funny it could happen......
 
When I was in primary or lower junior school the headmaster showed each class a huge (well it was to me at the time) dead tropical spider that the local greengrocer had given him. The head said this type of spider lived in bananas. For ages I believed they actually lived inside bananas - somehow squeezed in between the skin and the fruit - and didn't want to peel a banana in case one jumped out.

One I was told as a kid, and I think many others were told too, and still seems to have supporters among adults is a swan can break your arm with its wing.

Dave
 
Tringa said:
When I was in primary or lower junior school the headmaster showed each class a huge (well it was to me at the time) dead tropical spider that the local greengrocer had given him. The head said this type of spider lived in bananas. For ages I believed they actually lived inside bananas - somehow squeezed in between the skin and the fruit - and didn't want to peel a banana in case one jumped out.

One I was told as a kid, and I think many others were told too, and still seems to have supporters among adults is a swan can break your arm with its wing.

Dave
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A swan could break the arm of a child or an elderly person with its wing. Not likely though in a healthy " strong boned" adult
 
Snooky said:
I was told as a child if you pull the tail of an animal ( had a few dogs at the time) there eyes would pop out! Believed it for many years but now have passed it in to my little one who finds it funny it could happen......
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I was told that story but specifically about Guinea Pigs!

I was taken to see Peter Pan [the original Disney one] with Captain Hook getting eaten by a crocodile, scared me shoe-less, my mum told me there were crocodiles in the canal [behind the house] and I never went near there. Caused problems in later life tho' when my friends lived on narrow-boats:)
 
I told my kids, between me and my twin brother, we know everything in the universe.
Obviously if I don't know it, it's my twin brother's forte...whom they have never met :D

I've heard the belly button one before.
I don't think I was told anything like that though from my parents. (Beyond the usual Santa etc), not that I remember anyway.
 
I remember being told as kids when we pulled a face tthat if the wind changed it'd stay that way.
I think that's a common one.
 
When my son was about 4 I could hear him messing about in the kitchen and since I could tell what he was doing I told him to stop doing it (no, not IT, I just can't remember the exact details :p ). He went quiet for a few seconds then asked me how I'd known what he was doing. I told him that all mummies could see through walls. Jump ahead a few years to when he was about 12 and he came to me one day and asked whether I could still see through walls - oh how I laughed...
 
Heard this one on the radio some time back - a Mother told her child that when the ice cream van played the music that it was to let everyone know he was sold out.:(

What a clever parent:clap:
 
Nikon Ken said:
Heard this one on the radio some time back - a Mother told her child that when the ice cream van played the music that it was to let everyone know he was sold out.:(

What a clever parent:clap:
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Yep...heard that one just recently :lol:
 
My mum once told me that if you swallowed the pips out of an orange, a tree would start growing out of your head!!
 
Farmerjim said:
I was told that story but specifically about Guinea Pigs!
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:thinking: How did that one work? I didn't think Guinea Pigs had tails . . .
. . . hmmmm I don't think I want to know what you were actually pulling :wideyed:


When I was at an age where I was getting interested in boys, my grandmother told me to always check their belly button before kissing them.
If it was an 'insie' they were OK, but if it was an 'outsie' they couldn't be trusted.
(And yes, my grandmother was weird :LOL: )
 
I still deliberately step on the cracks in the pavement in the hope that bears will appear.
 
SarahLee said:
:thinking:When I was at an age where I was getting interested in boys, my grandmother told me to always check their belly button before kissing them.
If it was an 'insie' they were OK, but if it was an 'outsie' they couldn't be trusted.
(And yes, my grandmother was weird :LOL: )
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Makes me glad...
  • I've never been interested in boys
  • The girl's I've met have had sane grannies
  • My navel neither in nor out, rather, its flush :ROFLMAO:
 
I took my kids to Tring Museum of Natural History when they were young. Pointed to a closed door and told them that was where they kept a dangerous monster called a Staffonly.

They believed me.
 
I can imagine a child or elderly person could be injured as a result of falling after being attacked by a swan but I don't think a blow from the wing is going to break a bone. I'd like to see any substantiated case.

However, back to the subject of this thread. As a child I (and I think others too) were told that eating the crusts on toast would make your hair go curly.

Dave
 
Tringa said:
I can imagine a child or elderly person could be injured as a result of falling after being attacked by a swan but I don't think a blow from the wing is going to break a bone. I'd like to see any substantiated case.
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I've looked in vain on t'internet for a substantiated case... closest I came was this :D

" A swan has broken the arm of 7-year-old Peter Blakerton, who had got too close to the bird despite being repeatedly warned about the potential consequences.

His father, Geoff, said; “I’ve told him time and time again that this could happen but did he listen, no he didn't. Let this be a warning to others.”

The child was understandably distressed and in quite a lot of pain at the time and his father tried to lighten the mood. “He was pulling such a face with the shock of it all and all I said was that if the wind changed it would stay like that, when blow me if the wind didn't change and his face got stuck like that,” he said, “So that’s another job for A&E to sort out.”

Young Peter is now back home where he’s recovering well on the sofa, watching some TV. “Look at him, quite content. He’s just been sitting there for hours now,” said his father. “And I can see his eyes getting squarer and squarer by the minute. But after the day he’s had, I haven’t got the heart to mention it.”
 
Between the ages of 6 and 17 I lived on a smallholding which had no gate between the farmyard and the garden. My mother used to use the very large Puritan soap bars for part of her cleaning and had a habit of leaving the soap bar on the outside wall of the outhouse. One day when I was on school holidays one of the sows saw the almost new bar of soap and ate it, my father told me that when she had digested it she would fart bubbles, and I followed her around all day waiting to see it happen.
 
SarahLee said:
:thinking: How did that one work? I didn't think Guinea Pigs had tails . . .
. . . hmmmm I don't think I want to know what you were actually pulling :wideyed:
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I think that was the joke, they don't have tails :)
 
Tuesday not much better............

told if I continued to suck my thumb it would dissolve away

One Christmas Eve we heard the sound of a shot. Dad claimed Santa had just committed suicide
 
Nikon Ken said:
Heard this one on the radio some time back - a Mother told her child that when the ice cream van played the music that it was to let everyone know he was sold out.:(
What a clever parent:clap:
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ChrisHeathcote said:
I was cold that if an Ice Cream van was playing music it meant that they had run out of Ice Creams :(
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Late to the party again Chris? :D

I was told if I didn't eat my carrots I'd end up as a Mod on a large photography form
(I never did like carrots :D)
 
I got the usual wind will change direction one to face pulling, and I remember my aunt used to say to my cousins that if you ever pick your nose your head will cave in. There was of course the ones about lying - we were told your nose grew, by the time I had kids, we had changed it to getting spots on your tongue [used to catch the eldest checking her tongue in the mirror quite often] My dad also used to tell us that every time we said 'are we there yet' we would add 10 mins to the journey time. My friend used to explain death to her then young son by telling him that when someone died, they became a star, so you still knew they were there and could see them, which I quite liked for younger kids and avoided the whole 'heaven' thing.
 
ChrisHeathcote said:
Looks like either I was that child or there are other cruel parents out there :(
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:D
I've heard it said by a few friends to their kids TBH.
My parents were never that scheming,
they just said you aint f*****g having one :D
 
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