Tales you were told as a child (divorced, parent, grandmother)

[ABQConvict]

If you pout, a little bird will come and land on your lip.

If you run away, Trolls will put you in a sack and take you away to their cave and eat you.

[steiconi]

That would be seratonin, a feel-good chemical (hormone?) manufactured by the body when we do something we're proud of (and at other times).

Originally Posted by GiGi603

Hmmm...what is that so called "grace"--I think it is invisible fairy dust to make one feel good inside

[steiconi]

If you sneeze three times and nobody says "bless you," the leprechauns can carry you away.

[reneeh63]

That if you ate the "heel" of a loaf of bread I'd have curly hair and/or be tall.

[ShanIAmVA]

Let's just say I had a LOT of pets that went to "the farm". I only started questioning where this so-called farm was after my goldfish started going there, too.

[AZDesertBrat]

When I started losing my teeth, when I was six, Dad told me that if I didn't stick my tongue in the hole it would grow back gold! Of course I never found out because who can resist doing that? lol Also, when I was pretty small we had groups of Gypsies that would camp out not far from our house. My mom told me to stay away or they'd kidnap me, take me away and SELL me! She also said that if anyone ever kidnapped me they'd pay HER to take me back! lol

[SeaOfGrass]

Originally Posted by steveklein

that cold water boils faster than warm water.

i feel like this one is still kinda pervasive and many adults believe it.

My dad told me that one when I was a kid. I said I didn't believe it. He laughed and said he didn't either.

He also said that when you're hot, the energy you expend fanning yourself makes you even hotter, that you'd be better off just sitting still. I had the same reaction to that one. Again, he would just kind of laugh. (Was he testing me? lol)

Originally Posted by steiconi

I never heard this one until I was in my 20s, at work as a costumer. A bird flew into the room, and one of my co-workers said "That means someone will die!" Then he gasped and clutched his throat.

I thought he was joking, but it turned out he had swallowed a sewing pin.
ER, xrays, he was fine, it was going down head first, and he should eat bread to cushion it.

Which reminds me, my mom said not to hold pins in my mouth because I might swallow them!

What a weird coincidence!

[mkpunk]

Here's a new one. "This (whatever drink or food your father was talking about) will grow hair on your chest."

[jamary1]

Originally Posted by AZDesertBrat

When I started losing my teeth, when I was six, Dad told me that if I didn't stick my tongue in the hole it would grow back gold! Of course I never found out because who can resist doing that? lol Also, when I was pretty small we had groups of Gypsies that would camp out not far from our house. My mom told me to stay away or they'd kidnap me, take me away and SELL me! She also said that if anyone ever kidnapped me they'd pay HER to take me back! lol

Oh, heck, I was always being threatened with being sold TO the next gypsies who came by.

[2mares]

Originally Posted by SeaOfGrass

My dad told me that one when I was a kid. I said I didn't believe it. He laughed and said he didn't either.

He also said that when you're hot, the energy you expend fanning yourself makes you even hotter, that you'd be better off just sitting still. I had the same reaction to that one. Again, he would just kind of laugh. (Was he testing me? lol)

My dad was the guy who was always hollering "turn that light out, you think I'm made of money?", so when I became a teen, to get him back for the peas will make your hair curly, I told him (once) after he yelled turn the light off, "you know dad, it takes more energy to turn the light off and back on than it does to just leave it on". I only said that once.