Tales you were told as a child and believed!

I had a funny uncle who always told me that if you unscrewed your bellybutton your bum would fall off.

Originally Posted by Jaffacake

Oh, and if you ate apple pips a tree would grow in your tummy?

And if you picked Dandylions you would wet the bed?

Click to expand...

Yes!!!

If i had a huffy face on my mum would say "The wind will change and you'll stay like that mind!!"

Originally Posted by BarbB

-Frowning would make your face stick that way.

Click to expand...

That one worked on my ex-step-mother! She even frowned while she smiled!

Here are my biggest ones:
-If you fell in the grass when wearing shorts, clovers would grow out of your knees. And if you tried to pick them you'd just pull and pull and the stem would get longer and longer... I had nightmares over this for years. All thanks to my older cousin.
-If you ate a watermellon seed the plant (did I mention I was and still partly am, terrified of plants?) would grow inside you and you'd have watermellons grow inside your tummy. I'm glad I'm not the only one who believed this.
-Baby's came out from a door in the Mommy's stomach and I'd get my door when I got bigger.

My dad used to tell a fantastic story about the extinct Naugas and Moes. They became extince because they were hunted for their wonderful pelts, which were used to make Nauga-hide furniture and Mo-hair products. My grandmother had a Mohair sofa, and my father told us kids that it was from the very last in a long line of brave maroon Moes. He used to spin fascinating stories about these two, shy reclusive animals. My sister and I, and all my cousins, would be speechless with awe, listening to those clever tales. I half believed, for quite a long time, that there were really such beasts as Naugas and Moes.

My sister used to swear she could see her own brain if you held a flashlight up and she rolled her eyes backwards.

And the apple/watermelon seed one, as well as that if you swallow gum it will stay in your stomach until you die.

There's also the "bloody mary" one, where you turn the lights off and look in the mirror and say "Bloody Mary" three times, Queen Mary comes through the mirror and kills you. I don't think I could do it to this day.

Originally Posted by Zissou'sMom

There's also the "bloody mary" one, where you turn the lights off and look in the mirror and say "Bloody Mary" three times, Queen Mary comes through the mirror and kills you. I don't think I could do it to this day.

Click to expand...

I remember that one!


Mine was the gum, watermelon things.

And the monster under the bed too!

I would run as fast as I could to get in the bed in fear he would eat my feet

The ones I was told and was young enough to believe (other than the tooth fairy, santa, bunny thing) were:

If you swallow an apple/watermelon seed, then an apple/watermelon tree will grow inside you.

That if you swallow your chewing gum that it won't digest and you'll wind up with a giant wad of gum in your stomach.

That if you make funny faces and someone slaps you from behind, your face will freeze like that.

And,

That the radio has little people inside it. (I always thought that the hole on the back on my little, orange, AM radio was for those teensey people to get in and out of it. I was always watching it to see if I could catch them climbing in/out. )

Originally Posted by GingersMom

That the radio has little people inside it. (I always thought that the hole on the back on my little, orange, AM radio was for those teensey people to get in and out of it. I was always watching it to see if I could catch them climbing in/out.

)

Click to expand...

AWWW!!! That is adorable

My older brothers used to tell me that if I watered baby rocks, they would get big......and so I went out and collected a bunch of cute pebbles, put them in a jar, and watered them for days before my mom broke the news to me......

When our brother was about 9 years old we told him that the army was comming to take all boys to fight in the war. We tricked him into wearing dresses and makeup for one good weekend out of the summer....It was hilarious! The best part was that my parents went in on it to. We acted like a normal family and started calling Nathan Nathana. Man that was a funny weekend!

This is the only story I can think of right now.

You guys have some good ones!!

I think the one I remember is if you eat a watermelon seed, it would grow a watermelon in your tummy!!


I will have to do some more thinking.....

Originally Posted by catloverin_ks

You guys have some good ones!!

Click to expand...

I`ve had a good laugh reading all these

Originally Posted by Pookie-poo

My dad used to tell a fantastic story about the extinct Naugas and Moes. They became extince because they were hunted for their wonderful pelts, which were used to make Nauga-hide furniture and Mo-hair products. My grandmother had a Mohair sofa, and my father told us kids that it was from the very last in a long line of brave maroon Moes. He used to spin fascinating stories about these two, shy reclusive animals. My sister and I, and all my cousins, would be speechless with awe, listening to those clever tales. I half believed, for quite a long time, that there were really such beasts as Naugas and Moes.

Click to expand...

Oh, that is so sweet! Your dad had a great imagination and passed it down to you!

The only one I can think of (besides the watermelon seed thing and the gum thing) is when I was staying at my Grandparents house one night and I would not go to sleep. My grandfather told me I had to sleep because Sabre Two (my stuffed dog) had to play too, and he wouldn't play as long as I was awake. Ummm...can you say backfire??? Like I was going to EVER go to sleep if I thought my best friend was actually going to come to life! Yeah, he always regretted it, and so did my parents for the next few weeks. I was a very grumpy sleepy child.

There IS a Nauga! I remember when I was a kid the TV ads had a wonderful cartoon Nauga-monster from whom Naugahyde supposedly came!

Here's an eBay listing for one of the magazine ads of the time:

http://cgi.ebay.com/1967-Naugahyde-N...QQcmdZViewItem

And here's something I found while searching for that -- it's a wonderful nauga-myth from the Naugahyde people themselves!

http://www.naugahyde.com/history.html

Originally Posted by EnzoLeya

When our brother was about 9 years old we told him that the army was comming to take all boys to fight in the war. We tricked him into wearing dresses and makeup for one good weekend out of the summer....It was hilarious! The best part was that my parents went in on it to. We acted like a normal family and started calling Nathan Nathana. Man that was a funny weekend!

This is the only story I can think of right now.

Click to expand...

That made me laugh out loud! Your poor brother...I'll bet he was furious when he found out he'd been had!

...............& the Easter Bunny. In Australia there's a book called 'Snuggle Pot & Cuddle Pie'. In it there are gumnut babies & I believed they lived in my garden.
Girls at school used to say that if you went into a certain building in Sydney they made you become a nun.

I remember being told that a certain fast food joint used kangaroo meat instead of regular meat. For YEARS I never ate there, even when I knew it was nonsense.

I remember Bloody Mary and agree - I don't want to find out if its true or not
What about candyman too? Seems like there was something with him and the mirror as well.

Oh yea, I once tried to dig a hole to China...I didn't get very far

Originally Posted by StarryEyedTiGeR

My aunt told me one day that if i sucked my thumb, it would fall off

Click to expand...

We were told that as well, my mums uncle only had one thumb so we were always told we'd end up like him

My Dad told me if I swallowed my own blood that I would turn into a vampire. So every time I lost I tooth I would freak out trying to spit all the blood out of my mouth. I believed him till I was 11 or 12 and my mom finally asked me why I freaked out so much. She didnt know hed been telling me that!

My friend Mary that I met when I was 5 years old (we are still best friends now) Told me when we would play outside at night and we would have flashlights... NOT to shine my Flashlight up at the Sky... because an Airplane would think I was an Airport & would LAND on ME.

For YEARS... this TERRIFIED me... & when I would see ANYONE shine their flashlights up at the sky I would get SO SCARED and freak out on them! As I didn't want any Airplanes landing on them or on ME!

Years later I told her that I TOTALLY believed her... lol & she told me she only told me about it because she believed it too so she wasn't being mean. She was just helping out her friend so I didn't get squished by a plane