Jiac Posted June 26, 2014 Share Posted June 26, 2014 (edited) So seeing my little siblings grow up, and from personal experience, my parents would say things just so I don't do anything stupid as a kid. My dad would tell me when I was 3, if I ate too much sugar, ants would crawl all over me just to eat the sugar off of me when I slept, that scarred me and made me think ants eat humans for a portion of my life. I would be scared to touch an ant, until my father pointed out the size difference and how easy it is to kill them a few weeks after he told me that story. Yet I turned out just fine and know the real intent when telling me that. So my question is, what did your parents do to you as superstition just to scare you? In order, to prevent you from performing a specific action. Edited June 26, 2014 by Vermilion Zephyr Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Geek Posted June 26, 2014 Share Posted June 26, 2014 My dad would sometimes make this super sweet cake known as Gooey Butter Cake (it's apparently a Kansas City Missouri thing?). Neither me nor my sister cared for it, so we didn't understand why he made it. He told us that it was for the Great Humdinger, a dragon who would throw fruit at you if you didn't give him Gooey Butter Cake. The fruit he threw was seasonal too: in Spring and Summer he threw coconuts while in Fall and Winter he threw oranges. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AMCC4728 Posted June 26, 2014 Share Posted June 26, 2014 religion Ghosts, mainly dead family members. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Conall Posted June 26, 2014 Share Posted June 26, 2014 Everybody on the internet is secretly a pedophile Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Momentai~ Posted June 26, 2014 Share Posted June 26, 2014 I can't think of anything. My parents were pretty up front with me about stuff (If you do x, then y will probably happen and when I find out then z will definitely happen). Z was of course the scariest thing and something very easy to demonstrate in reality. My brother was the one who told me crap lol. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raven Posted June 26, 2014 Share Posted June 26, 2014 Something something television something square eyes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Integrity Posted June 26, 2014 Share Posted June 26, 2014 Everybody on the internet is secretly a pedophile and then you learned the horrible reality Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Conall Posted June 26, 2014 Share Posted June 26, 2014 W-what? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Freohr Datia Posted June 26, 2014 Share Posted June 26, 2014 If you keep making that face it's going to get stuck like that and you'll have it forever My dad got that from his own mother~ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xator Nova Posted June 26, 2014 Share Posted June 26, 2014 "anime is satanic" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koneko Posted June 26, 2014 Share Posted June 26, 2014 My parents told me that the darkness was something that protected you from the monsters at night. At the time I was afraid of the dark and being alone, but it helped me sleep easier as I got older. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Freohr Datia Posted June 26, 2014 Share Posted June 26, 2014 Awwwwww that one was actually a real sweet one~ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wist Posted June 26, 2014 Share Posted June 26, 2014 I was told the universe would implode if I put my finger in a power socket. The explanation sounded plausible when I was four.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Integrity Posted June 26, 2014 Share Posted June 26, 2014 (edited) i like that one, lbr EDIT: @kaneko but tbh it could apply to you too wist-sama Edited June 26, 2014 by Integrity Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shahrivar Posted June 26, 2014 Share Posted June 26, 2014 I can't think of anything. My parents were pretty up front with me about stuff Same here as I recall - it wasn't needed, too, as I was quite reasonable as a child. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dijon Mustard Posted June 26, 2014 Share Posted June 26, 2014 They used to tell me that if I swallowed gum, it would make spiderwebs in my stomach. I really don't see the point of that one.They also told me that I would always trip if I didn't count stairs when I walked on them, which actually was helpful. I still count stairs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Comet Posted June 26, 2014 Share Posted June 26, 2014 Santa and the Easter bunny. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parrhesia Posted June 26, 2014 Share Posted June 26, 2014 (edited) My parents told me that the darkness was something that protected you from the monsters at night. At the time I was afraid of the dark and being alone, but it helped me sleep easier as I got older. this is real good and if i have children they will learn this I don't have any of these but my favourite urban legend as a child was 'eating margarine makes you blind'. Edited June 26, 2014 by Parrhesia Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Freohr Datia Posted June 26, 2014 Share Posted June 26, 2014 They used to tell me that if I swallowed gum, it would make spiderwebs in my stomach. I really don't see the point of that one. Well, probably because they heard that you can't digest bubble gum. It certainly wouldn't help if you swallowed a lot of gum within a short amount of time, that could do some clogging. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rewjeo Posted June 26, 2014 Share Posted June 26, 2014 Basically Santa and the Easter Bunny. Which they didn't teach so much as not go out of their way to tell me were false. I mean, I was like six when I asked my dad if the Tooth Fairy really existed, and he told me the truth. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Original Alear Posted June 26, 2014 Share Posted June 26, 2014 (edited) I was told that you make babies when a man and a woman do this weird thing with their private parts. I know the truth now though. The storks make the babies. I've seen it with my eye. EDIT: Really though, I can't think of any. Edited June 26, 2014 by SeverIan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Esau of Isaac Posted June 26, 2014 Share Posted June 26, 2014 When I was a youngster, I lived in a haunted house. Well, everyone else agrees it was haunted. One of the characters they claimed to see was a "Little girl in a white dress." We'd sometimes lose stuff or it would end up misplaced, and when that happened whoever it happened to would inevitably defend themselves by saying, "the little girl in the white dress must have taken it!" The problem for me is that I was a small child when I lived here, and though now I'm very skeptical of the notion of hauntings, I remember with some clarity seeing this girl and hearing things moved around. Now that I'm older though I can't distinguish what truly happened and what was just my imagination running wild. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Original Alear Posted June 26, 2014 Share Posted June 26, 2014 When I was a youngster, I lived in a haunted house. Well, everyone else agrees it was haunted. One of the characters they claimed to see was a "Little girl in a white dress." We'd sometimes lose stuff or it would end up misplaced, and when that happened whoever it happened to would inevitably defend themselves by saying, "the little girl in the white dress must have taken it!" The problem for me is that I was a small child when I lived here, and though now I'm very skeptical of the notion of hauntings, I remember with some clarity seeing this girl and hearing things moved around. Now that I'm older though I can't distinguish what truly happened and what was just my imagination running wild. Maybe there was just a girl living in your house. Not a ghost. Just a normal, living girl. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raven Posted June 26, 2014 Share Posted June 26, 2014 My great-grandmother would tell me that eating the crust of toast would give me curly hair. I didn't believe it anyway, so I kept eating crust despite not wanting curly hair. My hair was wavy when I was growing it out long, but never curly. You've been debunked, Gran. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aisuko Lyrical Posted June 26, 2014 Share Posted June 26, 2014 anyone on the internet wants to rape me. Video games anime and manga makes you stupid. it's not sexist to think women should only be housewives. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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