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Carolinec (Carolinec)
Username: Carolinec
Registered: 06-2009
Posted From: 92.232.199.129
| | Posted on Tuesday, August 09, 2011 - 03:05 pm: | |
I've recently started a healthy eating kick, so I was tucking into my roasted seeds yesterday (they actually taste quite good!  ) when I remembered something my dad used to tell me when I was a kid. He always told me that if I swallowed an orange pip, cherry stone, etc then I'd end up with a tree growing inside me!
With hindsight, I realise he was just trying to get me to be careful not to swallow pips/stones/seeds for fear of me choking on them. But that thought - of having an orange/cherry tree slowly growing inside me - used to scare the hell out of me!
Anyone else remember things they were told (or read about/heard about) as kids which used to scare them silly?
BTW just realised that the title of this thread would make an excellent title for a collection or anthology!  |
Tony (Tony)
Username: Tony
Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 81.155.207.87
| | Posted on Tuesday, August 09, 2011 - 03:19 pm: | |
The bogeyman.
And; the Sea Fret. One night at a caravan site at Whitley Bay we watched a black and white film in the film hut - it had a woman turning into a tiger, but it wasn't Cat People. Well during it I fell asleep and had to walk back to the van feeling all drowsy. It was very dark and misty, and so my nana said 'The sea fret is coming in'. Well I had no idea what that was, and drifted off to sleep in the van only to wake at a knock at the door; in my mind, it was the sea fret, a creature like a man-sized blue rabbit. I can only say it scared the crap out of me, and even more now that I realise it was the same apparition we saw in Donnie Darko... |
Hubert (Hubert)
Username: Hubert
Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 178.116.57.88
| | Posted on Tuesday, August 09, 2011 - 03:20 pm: | |
"If you bite your nails all the little bits get stuck together in a giant ball lodged inside you, making it impossible to swallow or breathe. Eventually you die a painful death."
A good old priest once assured us little ones that too much w**king would make us homosexual. |
Tony (Tony)
Username: Tony
Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 81.155.207.87
| | Posted on Tuesday, August 09, 2011 - 03:35 pm: | |
Hubert - fingernails turn into kidney stones if swallowed. |
John Llewellyn Probert (John_l_probert)
Username: John_l_probert
Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 194.176.105.138
| | Posted on Tuesday, August 09, 2011 - 04:27 pm: | |
Caroline I remember the tree one!
My parents are completely mad and Welsh, as Kate can all too readily testify. Here are some of the things they terrified my brother and me with when we were growing up:
Don't drink vinegar - it will burn a hole through your stomach
If your burp too much your throat will explode (I can see my seven year old image of blood and gore spraying everywhere as a result of a particularly gaseous outburst now)
Albino rabbits are evil & you mustn't let them look at you.
Swallowing chewing gum will kill you |
Carolinec (Carolinec)
Username: Carolinec
Registered: 06-2009
Posted From: 92.232.199.129
| | Posted on Tuesday, August 09, 2011 - 05:22 pm: | |
I wonder if it's a Welsh thing, John? My dad's Welsh too! 
>>I can see my seven year old image of blood and gore spraying everywhere as a result of a particularly gaseous outburst now<<
And, you know, that image might have influenced the direction your life took in adulthood too (ie. occupation, writing, etc).
Tony - I *loved* your sea fret story - made me chuckle out loud. |