Weird things your mum told you and you believed at the time ..

Wear a vest or you’ll get a chill.

If the wind changes your face will stay like that!

Eat your crusts, it’ll make your hair curl.

I gave it a lot of thought HousePlantQueen. I used to hope on cold wintry days when I’d see the green lady trudging through the snow that she’d remembered to put a hat and mitts on the baby in the bag!

Grannynannywanny

When I was a little girl in the 1950s the community health visitors were a common sight visiting mothers before and after giving birth. They wore a bottle green uniform and were referred to as the “green ladies”. They carried sturdy oblong bags.

When I was about 3 yrs old my Mum told me they were delivering babies in their bags and I totally believed her and watched in amazement if I saw one in the street. I’d picture the little baby snuggled up in the oblong bag and wonder which lucky household would receive it. Of course if she went into a house nearby and I later saw the family with a baby in a pram I know it was true 😆

Same here! The district nurse visited Mum after my brother was born, and I was told that he had arrived in her bag (black, sturdy Gladstone type). I was forever pestering her to let me look in the bag to see the other babies

The weirdest thing I ever believed was when I was about four and for some reason sucking the end of a knitting needle. Stop sucking that said mum, you’ll poke your eye out, like grandad. The poor man had had an accident and lost an eye. But I believed her and spent hours trying to feel the back of my throat to find the hole the knitting needle must have gone up to get to his eye! And wondering how he had bent it!

I was told if I swallowed chewing gum it would wrap round my lungs and I would die :-(

I can remember being very interested in my belly button one day and my mum telling me to be careful or I'd unravel!

My mother told me frequently that she was sending for the van to take my sister and I to the "Naughty school". In my mind that would be something like Sunday school. Also that men in the white coats would be coming to take her away to the local mental hospital as we were driving her mad.
Eventually she made both these threats so many times that they lost their effect.

Hopefully old wives’ tales and things you might have believed in your early years are no longer part of what you take as gospel?
Spoiler alert-
Tooth fairy
Father Christmas
Elf on the shelf etc

If my brother refused to eat his carrots despite the carrots are good for your eysight advice my Mum would follow it up with “you never see a rabbit wearing glasses”

Vitamin A is in carrots.✅

Sitting on very cold surfaces or warm heaters can cause haemorrhoids. ✅

Don't frown or the wind will change and your face will be stuck like that.

Avoiding crusts has not stopped my hair being curly.

Tuck your vest into your knickers, otherwise you'll get a cold in your kidneys.

Don’t wash your hair if having a period which I always thought was rubbish.

Like Terribull’s mum mine used to line the toilet seat in public loos with toilet paper before I sat down.

If you don't dry yourself properly under your armpits you will get tuberculosis. I believed this for years. And thunder was the old lady in the sky (God's wife, apparently) moving her furniture around. And snow was when she broke a pillow and the feathers tumbled down to earth.
My mum was full of these strange beliefs and I was gullible.

My mother told me that the hair of men and boys couldn't grow long. I believed her until the day a reclusive neighbour left his house due to illness. His hair was waist length!

of off late later

I suppose the weirdest thing I remember my mum doing rather than saying when I was small, if we went to the ladies loo, she'd painstakingly arrange pieces of toilet paper around the seat before I sat down, germs! maybe not so weird, but I remember it was a bit of a palaver. I don't think she told me anything too woo woo, apart from the teachings of the Catholic church, which I got both at home and at school some of which was definitely weird. Never forgot one nun on instructing us in how to take Holy Communion, "Don't let the host touch your teeth because you will be biting of Jesus' legs" I realised late, clearly batsshit nonsense, but at 7 I half believed her. My father on the contrary, bluntly told us from a very early age, "there's no such person as Father Christmas the presents you get come from us and the rest of the family" logical! but a spoil sport

If you swallowed chewing gum it would stick to your heart and you would die.
My mother was Irish. She told me that when she was a child she found a comb that belonged to a banshee in a field. I believed that.

We were driving through a dense Forestry Commission plantation of spindly conifers. I was told that each tree would be whittled down to make an individual matchstick. I really believed that ... for ten minutes.

My mum told me that gypsies in the woods would run away with me if I went to play there, so of course I went to check it out with my friends, we were very disappointed not to find any.

Oopsadaisy1

Carrots help you to see better.

Carrots contain beta-carotene that the body converts into vitamin A that does help improve vision, not sure how much or how often you would need to eat though.
Carrots are also a good source of vitamin C.

My mother, a very honest woman, told me that if I touched the plants known as 'Red-hot Pokers' I would burn my hands. I believed her for years, thinking when I was older they would give me a rash while not actually burning the skin.

Me too MissInterpreted! My hair was curly and I hated it

I was told if I swallowed apple pips a tree would grow in my tummy. I worried about that for a long time!

Whingey

Eat your crusts or your hair won't curl

All that achieved in my case was to stop me eating my crusts because I didn't want curly hair!

When I was a little girl in the 1950s the community health visitors were a common sight visiting mothers before and after giving birth. They wore a bottle green uniform and were referred to as the “green ladies”. They carried sturdy oblong bags.

When I was about 3 yrs old my Mum told me they were delivering babies in their bags and I totally believed her and watched in amazement if I saw one in the street. I’d picture the little baby snuggled up in the oblong bag and wonder which lucky household would receive it. Of course if she went into a house nearby and I later saw the family with a baby in a pram I know it was true 😆

Oopsadaisy1

Carrots help you to see better.

I thought they did. Really. Some vitamin in them or something. Didn’t work for me I have to say - myopic eyes.