There are some rumours that went viral during childhood,

Let's start straight away

1: if you swallow a seed,the tree will grow inside you,or from your tummy

2: that this eraser,the blue can erase ink

3: if you eat joined fruits,you'll give birth to joined babies

4: after urinating you must spit on the urine (this one,I still dey do am)

5: when its raining,God is urinating

6: if you don't take your bath on new years eve,you won't take any bath through out the year

7: undertaker(the wrestler) has seven(7) lives

8: all indians/chinesse are brothers and sisters

9: if you kiss a boy,you'll be pregnant

Add yours...

(1). D 1st rain of a year is a blessing, if u bath with it, u will b blessed (2). if u sleep facing d door in d night, u will wake up in a casket (3). IF u shout someone's name at night, evil spirit will take d name to evil world (4). IF u make a noise in a cementary, ghost will give u a knock on ur head.(iv nt tried this one)

[b][/b]10. If you flip your eyelid (oju epa) and house fly lands on it, you'll become blind

11. If you have an open wound, covering it with dirt will make it heal faster

12. It is an abomination for a kid to eat gizzard ( one of the sweetest part of a chicken or bird) : dad and mom scheme since 1606 B.C

13. If you pea on the same spot as I did, I must curse your parent and you do the same in turn. Example: IYA É, BABA É (still can't figure this till today)

Knotting two of your fingers would pull down any flying object.

They can lie in that area you grew up oooo... The only ones i know is 1,7,8 and 9

1. is just to prevent u from having appendicitis
7. When we were kids we believed wrestling was real, even home movies
8. Thats because they all look alike, there was even a story that once a child is born they throw stones on the roof and name the child after the sound thats been produced
9. Lots of daddy and mummy play back then and you never know what could happen so that was the best way to instill fears in girls then, but now you would be surprised when a child less than 10years is educating you about B ola J i.... lmao

It was fun thou

Number 3 tho

lol

no. 1

1. Its wrong to cook, pound or sweep at night
2. Don't whistle at night, it attracts snakes
3. It wrong for women to climb trees
4. Its wrong to pluck fruits, esp cherry. Allow dem fall down
5. When u cross over someone, you'll have to make a reverse otherwise the person will have stunted growth.
6. You don't hit someone with a broom

You just took me back to those days when men were boys

Lol..................... If you drink coconut water, you will fail in school

here please

If u spit into d toilet or dirty gutter u get infected by sore throat.

if u DRINK GARRI at nyt u wuld experience bad dreams

J

India beat Nigeria 99-1

hilarious indeed....

Lol

I was so scared of the first then.

D rumour I heard wen I was younger is one day Nigeria will be great and we will have stable power supply.

Now I'm 85 years old

But I'm still waiting for the rumour to become a reality.

Modified*

Throwing our teeth on top of d ceiling so that lizard would swallow it and a new one would grow.

That if we point at this lekeleke birds a white stuff will appear in our finger nails

Childhood was kinda fun sha...girls didnt form.. We just mingled freely.

4: after urinating you must spit on the urine (this one,I still dey do am)

I dey spit too.

Some people still say "Lagos is no man's land"
I no call anybody before dem ban me again!

*modified
If your food falls on the ground, don't pick because Satan has touched it

Peculiar among yorubas
Don't walk from behind because it's Ghosts that do that

If you eat chicken 'Nyash', you'll become an amebo. (till date, I still dey commot d Nyash)

Lol

Sijo01:
Lol

Et tu Sijo

Hmm...love the goog old days

There was time time on Nairaland when Seun's official threat slogan is, "....otherwise ban."

Lol