general

When I was three years old my brother was pulling the reel type lawnmower (no motor) and I started to push on the roller and my hand slipped and I cut off part of my left index finger. The Dr. fixed it and when I asked if it would grow back he told me it would. I believed it would until I started school.

Philip

I used to wonder why the heart and lungs didn't rattle around all over the place inside you. I had seen the picture of the body showing the skeleton and the heart and lungs on a poster at school as a five year old and thought the rest of your insides were just empty space. Didn't work that one out for years!

Fi Dann

When I was a child my mom used to threaten me that if I bite others they can revenge me by applying sandal on the bitten spot so that all my teeth would fall off. One day I was frightened a lot after biting my sister that I was closing my mouth all day in the fear of losing my teeth and from that day I never bit others.

Anandha Subha

If you stood in front of the fire for too long your spine would melt!

Helen, Cumbria

I have two small moles on each side of the back of my neck. I hated
them, so I told my mom I was going to pick them off. She told me I
would bleed to death!

Angie

my dad used to pretend to pull my nose off and hold his thumb between his index and middle finger. I believed he had and would scream, "give me it back!" which he kindly did.

annie from Leeds, u.k.

My dad told me that he had a 'dog poo warning trumpet' attached to his lips. When we walked down the street, everytime he saw dog poo he'd make a loud trumpet noise so we'd know to watch our feet! Although I don't believe it anymore, he still makes the trumpet noises 20 years on!

Jen

I used to think that I was made in Hong Kong! , as i ,like all men have a line along my scrotum, this I thought was where I had been moulded together!

Eddie

I was told by my parents that if I lied to them they would know because my tongue would go black, I really thought that was true for years.

Stan the man

I used to believe that when you cracked your knuckles or your bones creaked that you were snapping the stitches that held you together - when they all snapped you died.

Anon

When I was about 7, a cousin told me that if I swallowed my 'Adam's Apple' I would certainly die. I can vividly remember rapidly developing such a phobia about this that every time I swallowed I had too feel my throat to make sure the said piece of anatomy was still in position!

Michael Weetman

i used to believe if you wore your socks to bed all the time your feet would fall off because they couldn't breath.

Anon

I was told as a child that I could have as many sets of milk teeth as I needed and only when I reached 18 would I have adult teeth which would last forever

dave w

I used to think that if you cracked your knuckles they would get big and you would have arthritis when you got old because of it.

Kristen

when my hand or foot got tingly, my mom told me it had "fallen asleep". So I would cover it with a blanket to let it rest.

Kristen