I remember watching Bill Cosby's 'Kids Say', and it occurred to me how as kids we had some real weird imaginations, had silly things we believed or just swallowed the lies our parents and elder kids told us hook line and sinker; ofcourse until aftersometime in our adult life we realized we'd been real silly

Here are a list of things I thought and believed...
You can add yours too

*I believed in the Tooth fairy(courtesy of cartoons), only ish was in Nigeria our tooth fairies were actually rats. Mum would tell me to keep my tooth safe after it'd fallen off or the rats would eat it and i'll have rat teeth . I guarded my tooth with my life.

*I always wondered how Santa would drop me gifts since we didn't have a chimney. I bothered dad so much about adding a chimney to the roof for Santa n begged him to buy a Christmas tree too. I got the tree but not the chimney, and I never saw Santa.

*Everytime I saw Always sanitary pad advert, i'd ask mum why they poured that blue liquid on it. When I saw her own pad I was so excited, I spent over a week searching for where she hid the blue liquid. I got a lashing for all my troubles

*My dad is dark and mum fair. I have two fair siblings, while my bro n I are dark skinned. I concluded dad birthed us and mum had the other two.

*When I finally discovered only women had kids, I kept wondering why we were dark. My little mind concluded the doctors colored us whichever way our parents wanted. I was gonna have red babies like the red Indians

*When I was 6, my classmate told me we could turn cabin biscuit to chocolate by frying. I got home and emptied half a pack of cabin in the pan--all I got was charred biscuit afterwards. I still believed I had done it wrong till I turned 10..before I finally realized that cabins weren't chocolates

*After a bout of chicken pox, I refused to eat chicken for the next 5yrs...my parents had to convince me I hadn't contracted it from an actual chicken

*I believed covering my head with a blanket would keep the monsters away

*Things acted in Sci Fi movies were real. I wondered why our car couldn't fly.

*Whenever I swallowed an orange seed, i'd go to sleep really scared wondering when the tree would grow outta my belly.

*If u stood up while eating all the food would settle on your feet.

*Food sacrifices left in the center of a 3-way junction were taken away by real spirits

1. Never spit on the floor cos if you do and someone steps on it, it takes away your voice
2. Never rule a line in the sand cos if an ant passes thru it, it blinds your moma...

.Fishes fall from the sky wenever it rains
. Scared of darkness for fear of seeing ojuju
. Eat spaghetti n excrete worms (hardly ate it wen i was a kid)

Drinking coconut water as a pupil would make one dull.

I believed that the first woman was born with a dick but because of disobedience , God cut it off. They later warn me that if I let any girl outside my family members see my dick, it will disappear and I will become a girl.
I kept to that warning diligently untill . . .
. . . . Rose, our househelp came.

ITbomb: I believe that the first woman was born with a dick but because of disobedience , God cut it off. They later warn me that if I let any girl outside my family members see my dick, it will disappear and I will become a girl.
I kept to that warning diligently untill . . .
. . . . Rose, our househelp came.

badt pikin

ITbomb: I believe that the first woman was born with a dick but because of disobedience , God cut it off. They later warn me that if I let any girl outside my family members see my dick, it will disappear and I will become a girl.
I kept to that warning diligently untill . . .
. . . . Rose, our househelp came.

Hahahaha

Always thought the father Christmas came from New zealand

Freiburger: Always thought the father Christmas came from New zealand

you kidding me? I thought he was from Ireland

Interesting

-I believed that if someone should cross my legs, my children will resemble the person that crossed my legs!
-I believed that if I draw lines on the floor with a stick, a snake will follow the line and come to my house.
-I believed that there was one woman pounding yam inside the moon

I believed that if I swallow any fruit seed, the fruit tree will grow in my stomach

Mehn,a lotta them!!
Can't start typing now

That Nigeria lost 99-0 to India

Don't allow someone to cross you else you'll not grow tall.

Lady koi koi and Bush baby

Afam4eva:

Don't allow someone to cross you else you'll not grow tall.

This reminds me of the another illusion that when two people are walking towards you from an opposite direction, you should avoid passing through the middle of them, else you pick up their ailment immediately.
Kinda superstitcious.

Afam4eva: That Nigeria lost 99-0 to India

I still think this is true dang!

uj_sizzle:

I still think this is true dang!

Smh....

ITbomb:
I kept to that warning diligently untill . . .
. . . . Rose, our househelp came.

Yet you refuse to grace the Legend thread with the Rose tale.

@topic: the dilemma of every child, "where do babies come from?"

Mazi_Omenuko:

Yet you refuse to grace the Legend thread with the Rose tale.

@topic: the dilemma of every child, "where do babies come from?"

My mum once told me that mothers vomit the pregnancy after 9 months... there you have the baby and I believed that till I got to SSS class

ledafaze:

My mum once told me that mothers vomit the pregnancy after 9 months... there you have the baby and I believed that till I got to SSS class

Wouldn't it have been better if they just told us they pooped us into the toilet

bush baby and the mat story

believed in Hell fire

I used to believe a thunder lightning meant God was taking our picture

uj_sizzle:
you kidding me? I thought he was from Ireland

are you kidding me? I thought he came from Rome

If you swallow any seed (orange or guava), it will grow to become a tree in your tummy. So strange that we believed such silly things.

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mickyarams: I used to believe a lightning meant God was taking our picture

me too. I used to strike a pose. I remember when my hand was on a girl's bossom and thunder struck. I felt sick for weeks cos of the evidence waiting for me

I was always scared of 'Ojuju calabar'
SMH!! Funny old days.

I thought he came from congo

pumpingmachine: are you kidding me? I thought he came from Rome

When its raining and sun is shining.............lion is giving birth

That Nigeria is one country,that all the children then are future leaders of tomorrow.Again that by the year 2000 Nigeria would be more developed than all the countries in the world. Hahahahaha.

Thunder balogun story