.. to ask for the weird rumours you believed in primary school? (And still sort of do)

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Just remembered these weird ink eraser things.. and how we all were sure they had pig wee in them..!? also that if you swallowed even one piece of chewing gum you'd have to have an operation to remove it ... Etc etc!

If you said Bloody Mary into the mirror 3 times at night she would come and Get you the next night

Dandelions make you wet the bed

If you wear pyjamas without knickers you would get an infection...(this one might have been more specific to the girls at my school! I suspect one girl got mercilessly teased at a sleepover for not wearing pants and this morphed onto the mysterious infection...)

That when you moved up to high school you were almost guaranteed to have your head flushed down the toilet by bullies in your first week.

And light as a feather stiff as a board worked 😄

The candyman one was from a scary film

I was once told that when the Queen was knighting someone, if they didn't kneel down low enough she would use the sword to cut their head off. I believed this and wondered why anyone would take the risk of being knighted.

Marilyn Manson & his lack of ribs
Keenan & Kel being tragically mangled
Swallowing apple pips meant an apple tree grew inside you
Swallowing chewing gum meant getting it surgically removed
Buttercups indicated whether or not you loved butter
"Bloody Mary"
Eating mentos & drinking a coke close together would kill you because you blew up- that one persisted for ages!
That someone from my primary school owned the actual "heart of the ocean" necklace from Titanic. Self perpetuated rumour!
Eating too many bananas in one go could cause spontaneous combustion- we were embarrassingly old to believe that.
The Frosties kid had a "terminal disease" and his dad arranged for the advert so that he could still see his son after he'd died.

Not round my school but people at other schools believed that one of the senior girls at my school some years prior had used a test tube as a dildo which had to be removed after it shattered. It certainly wasn't an in-school legend, I'd never heard it and I was at the same school for 12 years.

If you said the hail mary backwards, in the dark, while looking in the mirror the devil would appear.

I tried doing it but got scared halfway and gave up. Lol

I later found out my granny did it when she was a teen. She'd came back from a night out with her friends, stood in front of the mirror, said it backwards; A shadow appeared behind her, scared the life out of her! She spun round and heard "what hell are doing?!!!" Then a roar of laughter! It was her mum! One of the best stories I've heard, my granny was a rascal growing up!!

[quote ApocalypseNowt]@drinkingwineoutofamug Maybe ...! It was by the seaside... [/quote]
No then 😂😂

Yes
Chewing gum swallows would stay forever and clog you up
Pavement cracks to be avoided. Dressed up as a game but I think I believed it deeply for a bit.
That whatever I was doing when it started to snow was me bringing it about (?!) and that I needed to keep going so it kept snowing. No amount of contrary evidence swayed me.
That ‘singlets’ were dangerous - when headmistress of infancy school issued a stern warning to the boys about not wearing them. We didn’t know what they were but we knew they were dangerous ‘boy stuff’. Or ‘dangerous boy stuff’.
That fairground workers might take us away if we got separated from family - certain this didn’t come from my parents at all probably connected to Enid blyton/just William type casual prejudice reading.
That my mum would let me do things if only I badgered her a lot ! Seems a common misunderstanding for children !

That sunny delight was made out of pig sperm.

The if you look in the mirror and say Candy man 3 times he will come through the mirror.

The Sunny D/pig sperm one is on me!

There was an episode of mythbusters where they tested the Diet Coke & eating mentos myth. I can’t remember the actual outcome but I think if you ate/drank enough it would actually work. But your talking a few hundred litres of diet coke and a few thousand mentos 😂

(Not going to spend the afternoon hunting for it on YouTube now to find out. Not at all.)

A little boy went alone into the men's toilets and someone cut his dick off. Heard it a few times and it was always the toilets in the local shopping area. Not true.

There was a caged off area under the school. It was haunted.

Girls used to get their hands singed off in the old sanitary towel incinerators.

At the big school, they would initiate you by flushing your head down the toilet.

Ahh I'd forgotten Sunny D! We just vaguely heard it was banned for being "bad for you".
Also the correcting fluid being pigs wee- that one definitely reached us.

Green grass with brown spots means goblins are nearby

Someone's shrewd older sister spread the following rumour: if you stayed blindfolded for half an hour, and did not move, speak or peep at all, you would be transported to the land of the fairies. It was her exceptionally cunning plan to keep her younger siblings quiet when she was looking after them!

Oh yes I remember the one about dandelions making you wet the bed!
@Buttybach we had one better than the babies come out of belly buttons.. A girl at our primary school said half a baby came out of each of its mothers nipples and was sewed back together again once it was out...!! Believed that one (absolutely horrified) for a while.!

We also were all pretty sure that the caretaker ate children..... He lived in a cottage over the road from the school and his curtains were always closed and we used to talk about all the bones he had hidden in there.. !! Poor man wouldn't have harmed a fly in real life.

That there was a woman who pleasured herself with a lobster and it gave birth to baby lobsters inside her and then something horrific that I think I've blocked out. Wtf!

That there was 100 pennies squished into a pound.

Using the telephone during a thunder storm would result in immediate death
If you play with your belly button and unscrew it your bottom will fall off
if when finished food on your plate and left your knife and fork crossed over you never again get anything to eat
spill salt??? you have to throw a pinch of it over your left shoulder (not your right shoulder)
shoes on the table - highway to hell!
And so many more, but please don't misunderstand me, I had wonderful parents and grandparents, it was just the way it was back then, and I am still alive to remember .

I believed that you had a baby every time you had sex.

I thought my friend's parents were hilarious because they'd obviously done "it" four times!

That school dinners had rats' tails in them.
That one of our dinner ladies was Hitler's daughter.
That eating syrup gave you worms.

1. Peter Andre died after having plastic injected into his abs.
2. Jean/denim doesn’t burn

That a kid got sucked into the wave machine mechanism at the local pool and died. I was so creeped out by the wave machine.

@BigWholeBean

1. Peter Andre died after having plastic injected into his abs.

1. Jean/denim doesn’t burn

Oooh this reminded me of another one - Peter Andre couldn't fully remove his t shirt during some performances because he had muscle and skin taken from his back and added to his abs