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Children's Myths

MeMaybe
MeMaybe Posts: 15
edited December 2024 in Chit-Chat
Hello All,
I really hope you're all doing well!

Who knows any kids myths? For example "If you don't clean you'll grow potatoes behind your ears" or "If you eat an apple seed it'll grow in your tummy".

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  • anels449
    anels449 Posts: 3,187 Member
    If you hide under the covers, monsters won't get you.
  • Bucky83
    Bucky83 Posts: 1,194 Member
    If you eat all of your vegies, your hair won't go curly. Or was it the other way around?
  • BostonMatt
    BostonMatt Posts: 258
    If you swallow gum it stays in your stomach for a year.

    But thats true because my mom told me so.
  • anels449
    anels449 Posts: 3,187 Member
    If you swallow gum it stays in your stomach for a year.

    But thats true because my mom told me so.

    Clearly your mom was nicer then. Mine told me 7 years.
  • elcyclista
    elcyclista Posts: 393
    If you step on the cracks, you break your mums back.
  • alliegeorge
    alliegeorge Posts: 114
    If you step on the cracks, you break your mums back.

    When I got angry with my mum I used to step on all the cracks :S - strange child!
  • SmudgerSmithRhino
    SmudgerSmithRhino Posts: 96
    If you swallow apple pips an apple tree will grow in your belly!
  • Ezwoldo
    Ezwoldo Posts: 369 Member
    Eat your carrots and you will see in the dark
  • LaneyRZ
    LaneyRZ Posts: 22 Member
    "If you eat too much table sugar by itself, you'll get worms."
  • elcyclista
    elcyclista Posts: 393
    If you lock the bathroom door, leave the water on the sink running, sprinkle water on the mirror and turn the lights off 3 times then say bloody mary 3 times you'll see bloody mary in the mirror.
  • MogwaisGrandma
    MogwaisGrandma Posts: 195 Member
    If you lock the bathroom door, leave the water on the sink running, sprinkle water on the mirror and turn the lights off 3 times then say bloody mary 3 times you'll see bloody mary in the mirror.

    Why is my inner child crying to go and try this?
  • Aperture_Science
    Aperture_Science Posts: 840 Member
    If you pick your nose your head will cave in.
  • PShep17
    PShep17 Posts: 221 Member
    "If you eat too much table sugar by itself, you'll get worms."

    Ahhh love this one!

    Bread crusts give you curly hair and cheese gives you nightmares!
  • Aperture_Science
    Aperture_Science Posts: 840 Member
    Santa knows when you've been naughty.
  • Ezwoldo
    Ezwoldo Posts: 369 Member
    Santa knows when you've been naughty.


    What so I can still be bad and he'll come
  • lucylousmummy
    lucylousmummy Posts: 348 Member
    if you kiss another child your teeth fall out, if the wind changes while your pulling a face it will stay that way, babys come from the cabbage patch, actually my mum told me this and i never forgave her lol
  • the_albino_1
    the_albino_1 Posts: 101 Member
    If you play with fire you'll pee the bed.

    The white spots on your fingernails are signs that you lied.
  • elcyclista
    elcyclista Posts: 393
    You'll get cooties if you kiss the girls.
  • Swissmiss
    Swissmiss Posts: 8,754 Member
    Not going to expound on it but there is the one about going blind.
  • LondonEliza
    LondonEliza Posts: 456 Member
    If you eat bread crusts, your hair will go curly. (Mine did :)

    My 7-yr daughter also informed me that if you say something at the same time as someone else and yell 'Jinx' afterwards, they won't be able to speak for a day. (?!?)
  • debloves2ride
    debloves2ride Posts: 386
    If you eat burnt toast you will be able to sing pretty

    (Ithink she just wanted us to eat the toast she burned!)
  • FoodieGal09
    FoodieGal09 Posts: 198 Member
    It's not really a myth, more one my dad made up I think.
    He used to tell me that eating my crusts would help me to swim better.
    It got me to eat my crusts!

    Also, I used to het the "If the wind changes, it'll stay that way" with regard to dirty looks. I know why now, my DD does the exact same look and it is evil lol.
  • alliegeorge
    alliegeorge Posts: 114
    If you eat bread crusts, your hair will go curly. (Mine did :)

    My 7-yr daughter also informed me that if you say something at the same time as someone else and yell 'Jinx' afterwards, they won't be able to speak for a day. (?!?)

    In my school if you were "jinxed" you couldn't speak again until somebody said your name - "jinx personal" meant that only the person who had jinxed you could say your name lol.. for everytime you spoke before your name was spoke you would get a punch.
  • elcyclista
    elcyclista Posts: 393
    If you stay awake past 12am, "la llorona" (the banshee?) will pace back and forth outside your window crying, "my childrennn....! My childrennnnn....!"
  • Noki1024
    Noki1024 Posts: 302
    My kids do this:

    If you put a spoon under your pillow and throw an ice cube out the window the nght before school they will get a snow day.
  • LaneyRZ
    LaneyRZ Posts: 22 Member
    Not going to expound on it but there is the one about going blind.

    :: Sits here staring at my non-hairy palms:: Yeah, Mom was such a fibber on both counts.
  • couponfun
    couponfun Posts: 714 Member
    If you wish upon a star, your dreams will come true.

    Someday your prince will come.

    There is such a thing as Prince Charmin

    umm...yeah I have a problem with Disney :laugh:


    Now as far as tales, I remember the gum one. Here are some others:

    If a mother sweeps her daughter's feet with a broom she will remain unmarried forever.

    If you put your shoes facing away from each other instead of in your path in life will go the wrong way.

    Wishing wells/wishing fountains. 'Nuf said.

    The chair game - a pregnant woman must pick between two chairs to sit in, one with a hidden knife and the other with a hidden pair of scissors. She doesn't know which is where. Whichever chair she picks determines the sex of the baby. (not really a child tales, but one of those I learned about when I was a little girl because I asked about it)
  • elcyclista
    elcyclista Posts: 393
    There's a wrong side of the bed and if you wake up on that one your day will be unlucky.




    I believed that one at least. XD
  • elcyclista
    elcyclista Posts: 393
    You'll never get old.

    Boy was I wrong about that. XD
  • sgv0918
    sgv0918 Posts: 851 Member
    If you swallow gum it stays in your stomach for a year.

    But thats true because my mom told me so.

    Clearly your mom was nicer then. Mine told me 7 years.

    I was also told 7
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