Myths from your childhood

[julybride]

We were told that eating fish would make you smarter and that carrots would give you curly hair.

 

[mom2of2]

bubble Yum bubble gum was made out of spider eggs

and who else was "sent" outside by the grown ups with brown bags and flashlights to snipe hunt????

 

[DukeStreetKing]

Originally posted by Bob Slydell
That's not what I was told would make you go blind!

Uh, Bob, we're over this way.

 

[Crankyshank]

Ok how about this chant and the exercise that went with it:
"I must.. I must.. I must increase my..............."

 

[LadyAurora]

Boys tease you because they like you.

Carrots will help you see.

Eating (crusted bread/icky vegetables) will (put hair on your chest/give you curly hair) depending if it was Mom or Grampa talking.

Santa brings coal to bad kids.

If your nose itches, you will kiss a fool.

Watching shows other than those approved by Mom will rot your brain.

You can't talk while fishing if you want to catch a fish.

 

[chell]

Originally posted by edcrbnsoul
I tell my kids the ice cream man plays that song to let you know hes out of icecream

 

[chell]

Eating chicken liver will make your chest grow. Boy am I glad I never did eat those livers, otherwise I wouldn't have been able to find a bra big enough.

 

[hrh_disney_queen]

That eating raw dough would give you worms..

 

[charlie,nj]

Here in New Jersey will were always told to watch out for the monkeyman.

Hey monkeyboy is he a relative of yours?

monkeyman web site

 

[Indyman]

Charlie, is there any truth to the Jersey Devil, too?

 

[cynsaun]

My mom told me not to pick my nose or my finger would fall off.

I was certain that my Grandpa had lost his pinky finger picking his nose, but in reality he lost it in a construction accident! HAHAHA!

 

[charlie,nj]

Indyman,

Maybe someone from South Jersey can answer you..that's where it's been spotted. (a lot of strange things happen in south jersey)

This is from weird nj magazine...

Jersey Devil

 

[Lachesis00]

Originally posted by Bob Slydell
That's not what I was told would make you go blind!

 

[Lachesis00]

Originally posted by cynsaun
My mom told me not to pick my nose or my finger would fall off.

I was certain that my Grandpa had lost his pinky finger picking his nose, but in reality he lost it in a construction accident! HAHAHA!

 

[Kteacher]

If you ate a Slim Jim on Fridays you would go to Limbo...........

Gotta love those Catholic School nuns!

 

[Stepharoonie!]

My parents told the following:

Carrots would give you nightvision.

Brussel sprouts would make you smarter.

Raw cookie dough gave you worms.

Biting your fingernails made bugs appear and live in your stomach.

If you swallowed gum, it would be in your stomach for 7 years.

If your cracked your knuckles, they would grow out deformed.

Ladybugs were poisionious.

If you swallowed a penny, the US Mint would hunt you down and cut it out of you.

If your feet come out of bed (after I was put to bed), the devil's hands will reach up out of the ground and pull you down to hell.

My Dad was the one in charge of turning the sun on and off.

Whenever my Dad would pass gas, he'd ask if I'd seen that elephant run by. I finally got tired of that one and told him he needed to just say he farted...he wasn't too pleased with me.

There was a man living in our lightbulbs that turned them on and off, and he'd come after me if I left any lights on in a room I wasn't in.

Spiders tap danced at night on my toothbrush if I didn't brush my teeth. Don't ask me what in the WORLD possessed my parents to tell me that one. I always brushed them 3 times a day, for feet of having "spider legs" in my toothbrush.

 

[Crankyshank]

We learned that you need to put a book between you and a guy's lap if you sit on his lap - or you'll get pregnant. yep gotta love Catholic school

 

[chell]

Originally posted by Stepharoonie!
If your feet come out of bed (after I was put to bed), the devil's hands will reach up out of the ground and pull you down to hell.

 

[tassie42]

stepharoonie, you must of been SCARED as a kid! I know I would of been!

 

[Mad4Mickey]

The Devil beating his wife has to be a Southern thing cause we always said that

How about "Snipe" hunting ? Anyone ever remeber being taken out to a dark grave yard with a paper bag and a stick to bang around in it ?? LOL Evil bunch of older kids I grew up with !