If you eat your crusts your hair will grow curly!....... and other nonsense

[PopcornPeacock]

LIGHTHEARTED!

Was anyone else ever told this, or any other 'nontruths' just to get you to do something you didn't want to do?

I hated the crusts off the bread. My mum used to buy them 'well done', aka burnt, so I refused to eat them.

Oddly enough, now in my 60's and post menopause, my hair now IS curly. Who knew!

Yes - don't swallow bubble gum - it gets caught on 'your insides.'

No, it doesn’t get caught, it winds itself along the full length of your innards. Applies to any gum actually, not just the bubble sort.

If you sit down all day, your arse will spread. (Cafe customers when I was a teenager).
After a lifetime of office work I can confirm this is not the case. Might have messed up my hips though.

Don't eat raw potatoes as you'll get threadworms.
Don't pick your nose as your head will cave in.
Swallowed chewing gum will never come out.
Eating crusts will make your hair go curly.
Sitting on a cold floor will give you piles.
Eating a banana too close to bed will give you stomach ache.
Eating cheese in the evening will give you nightmares.
If the wind changes, your face will set like that.
Put raw meat on a wart then bury the raw meat in the garden and the wart will go.

So many from the superstitious women in my family;
Eat your crusts to make your hair curl
Eat carrots for your eyesight
Don't touch egg shells - you'll get warts
Don't put new shoes on the table
Don't put up umbrellas indoors
Don't have peacock feathers in the house (!?)
Salute magpies
Be silent walking past a monkey puzzle tree
Step over cracks on the pavement

It was fucking exhausting and stupid and I feel so annoyed at how I beleved all this nonsense as a child. I've not passed a single bit of it on to my own kids.