Myth's that Mammy told us!!

MW

Sorry if there has already been a thread on this or anything but I was just wondering what ridiculous myth's your elders told you when you were younger.

My favourite was swallowing chewing gum means going to hospital for an operation to separate your insides that have been stuck together. I wasn't allowed eat chewing gum and I swallowed it once, I cried the whole way home and confessed to my Mother as if I had just murdered someone.

AckwelFoley

Me ma told me black men had huge wangs

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

chewing gum caused a build up of acid in your stomach, because you weren't actually eating any food for the acid to break down. so whenever I chewed gum, I was burning away at the lining of my stomach.

Lovely woman.

If you swallow apple seeds an apple tree will grow out of your stomach.

She must have just seen Aliens or something.

Morlar

Myth wrote: »

If you swallow apple seeds an apple tree will grow out of your stomach.

She must have just seen Aliens or something.

I believed that one for years.

*/shakes fist !

AckwelFoley

carrots are good for eye sight.

Ruu_Old

This isn't After Hours, snyper. *points d'other way*

paulksnn

Eating crusts would give you curly hair.

Mrs. MacGyver

paulksnn wrote: »

Eating crusts would give you curly hair.

Was told that too. Was also told that if i swallowed chewing gum that a big white worm would grow in my stomach!

pow wow

Is this a thing unique to Irish mums? I feel cheated....my mum never once said anything like this to me. I went to school with girls whose mothers said rain was Jesus crying etc. and I was always all 'WTF?!".

Archeron

That planting orange pips in a 2 inch deep hole in a back garden in Dublin would result in a lush fruit filled orange grove within about two years.

I got the apple pip=stomach tree one too.

AckwelFoley

Anything you do on Sundays, will have to be undone with your nose in Heaven

BeansMeansHynes

If I go out with wet hair I will catch a cold!

minidazzler

I was always told that my tongue would have a black line if I lied.

AckwelFoley

She told me that guy sleeping with her was me Da

Trotter

I had to keep in mind that Santa used to bill my Mother in January so she'd have to go to the toy shop and pay for whatever he'd brought me. We were by no means poor.. Probably due to ruthless money management by my parents or good management of my ambitious Santa letters.

TheNog

When I got hurt me Ma always said "You'll be grand before your twice married". But I never planned on getting married even for the first time. Does that mean I will hurt for ever?

watna

That she found me in the cabbage patch, under a particularly big leaf.

funktastic

'If you put deep heat on your testicles you shall have any woman you want'

bullets

I remember some rediculos story about
not raising yer hand to yer mother and something
about a coffin when someone was dead their hand would raise up.

~B

Ruu_Old

watna wrote: »

That she found me in the cabbage patch, under a particularly big leaf.

Same here. I asked was that where chocolate came from and she said yes.

gillybeans

yea mine told me if i go out without my coat id catch pnoenia (cant spell)! the most you catch would be a cold

deemy

my dad used to say eat your cabbage it will put hair on your chest :rolleyes: christs sake i'm a girl it was enough to put me off it for life. He thinks hes hilarious. sarcastic fcuk

ASIL1983

I dont know if it was just my Mam or if everyone heard this but i believed for years that she had to go to school in bare feet

keefg

If you keep playing with "it", it will fall off

or that other chestnut........

If you keep playing with "it", you will go blind

oh, and God knows when you are playing with "it".:eek:

Senna

If i didn't go to school, the teacher would come over to our house.
That frightened me more than going to school.

ASIL1983 wrote: »

I dont know if it was just my Mam or if everyone heard this but i believed for years that she had to go to school in bare feet

Got all these lies, we had to walk 5 miles to school and 10 miles to church. It was only when i was about 12 i realized that mums homeplace was about 2 minutes walk from the school and church.
Fecking Liar

spurious

My mother's special was that if you sat with your back to a warm radiator, 'your spine would dry up'.

gollyitsolly

That if you ate black toast and ran against the wind you would get curly hair. My ma went to school in bare feet too. And that if you kept picking your nose youre finger would eventually come out the top of youre head.She knew a fella that happened to. I was always terrified Id meet him.

Ph3n0m

Personal favourite - if you make a face, and the wind changes direction, you'll stay like that

gollyitsolly

Or if you sat ON a radiator you would get piles.

Wishbone Ash

Ph3n0m wrote: »

Personal favourite - if you make a face, and the wind changes direction, you'll stay like that

gollyitsolly wrote: »

Or if you sat ON a radiator you would get piles.

I also got those two! :eek:

Anytime I saw anyone with a deformed face I thought I knew what had happened. Aahh...the innocence....:)

Sheridan

I was always told never to pick up or play with a comb discarded outdoors because it belonged to the banshee and she'd come after me. Mind you, my mother also used to tell me that "if you wanted it you wouldn't have left it lying around" when she threw one of my possessions out. It seems like it's one law for supernatural harbingers of death and another for the rest of us. :mad:

minidazzler

Senna wrote: »

Got all these lies, we had to walk 5 miles to school and 10 miles to church. It was only when i was about 12 i realized that mums homeplace was about 2 minutes walk from the school and church.
Fecking Liar

Dont forget it was uphill to school and coming back from school. In the snow!!!

Thats what I was always told!!

missmaw

Eatng the crusts of bread would put hairs on your chest
If i tell a lie its another thorn in jesus' crown( a bit cruel for a kid)
If i wouldnt go to bed something like "oh i just santa outside the window" tear up to bed
Got the wet hair one and that if i let it dry by itself ill get sick
There was some other quality ones needless to say im scarred for life

ThatGal

when i was four my dad told me once, after i asked him why he didn't have boobies like mam, that he puts special cream on them to stop them from growing.........he also told me my brother had to do it too........i believed him for so long!!!:o

Poppy78

My husband still believes that if you eat sugar maggots grow in your stomach.

And that cabbage makes your hair curly.

Although, he recently let his hair grow long again after many years and it is curly, and it didn't used to be when he was younger, and he does eat a lot of cabbage. So beware people, maybe you should listen to your mothers more often.

dior1catboy

ASIL1983 wrote: »

I dont know if it was just my Mam or if everyone heard this but i believed for years that she had to go to school in bare feet

Yip, mine too, and she had to fight lions and tigers on the way :rolleyes:

ilovecheeses

That swans could break your arm

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My dad used to tell me that Oriental people had the slanted eyes because they ate so much rice, and the shape of the rice made their eyes that shape.

:eek::eek:

Parental Racism ftw.

Taters

Well... I was told that if I stayed up after midnight I would be attacked by a large turkey... :eek: