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| The 21 Lies Our Parents Told Us While We Were Growing Up In Africa by omolola100(op): 6:55pm On Oct 12, 2024 |
1. If you drink garri or coke after eating mango, you'll dīe. 2. You must throw your fallen tooth on the roof before it can grow back. 3. When you sing & wave to the egret birds, you'll get white spots on your fingernails. 4. If it is raining and there is sun at the same time, it means that a lion or monkey is giving birth. 5. India won Nigeria 99-1 in a football match. 6. When you bend and look back in between your legs, you'll see spirits. 7. A mother and her son breaking firewood in the Moon as punishment, because they went to the farm on a Sunday and the Moon carried them. 8. Don't wear ruber bands because it drains blood. 9. If you eat while kneeling, you will never get satisfied because the devīl will be taking some. 10. If you blow air inside a pencil sharpener, it won't sharpen pencils anymore. 11. If anyone jumps or crosses you while you're sitting or lying down on the floor, you will never grow tall again until the person repeats the process. 12. If your parents send you on an errand and you came back late, to escape floggīng or punishment, you need to tie together certain leaves in the bush. 13. If you come to school late, in order not to feel pains during flogging, you need to put a stone in your mouth. 14. When you swallow a seed, especially African star apple seeds (Udara), it will germinate and grow in your stomach. 15. The coconut water is only for the elders. 16. As a young girl, if a boy touches you, it'll result to pregnancy. 17. If you whistle at night, you're calling the evīl spirits and serpents. 18. If someone bites you while fighting and you rub a fowl faeces on it, the person's teeths will fall off. 19. If you sweep the room late in the night, all your blessings will go away. 20. If you look at the mirror at night, you'll see a ghost. 21. If you eat Turkey's meat without burying the head, it will turn to a snake. Add yours 🙏🙏🙏🙏
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| Re: The 21 Lies Our Parents Told Us While We Were Growing Up In Africa by spyder880(m): 7:06pm On Oct 12, 2024 |
If you eat palm kernel nuts on new year day, you will be eating it throughout that year. OP must have grown up in the eastern part of Nigeria. |
| Re: The 21 Lies Our Parents Told Us While We Were Growing Up In Africa by Beremx(f): 7:09pm On Oct 12, 2024 |
Was it actually parents or those in your neighborhood that said all those lies? I grew up to know all that from kids from my neighborhood. Who told them all that is what I dunno ![]() |
| Re: The 21 Lies Our Parents Told Us While We Were Growing Up In Africa by Magnoliaa(f): 7:58pm On Oct 12, 2024 |
Core childhood memories. When life was still simple before T-pain came like a thief in the night and stole people's joy. |
| Re: The 21 Lies Our Parents Told Us While We Were Growing Up In Africa by Sonnobax15(m): 8:08pm On Oct 12, 2024 |
![]() Funny enough there are still adults who will argue with you that drinking coke or fanta after eating mango killS ![]() I think some passengers boarded my keke some time ago and a young man still maintained it arguably that he had witnessed someone who actually died immediately he drank coke after eating mango....I just shook my head Cuz I knew and have realized that there are certainly some old men who still grow milk teeth even in their old age ![]() |
| Re: The 21 Lies Our Parents Told Us While We Were Growing Up In Africa by ruggedtimi(m): 10:35pm On Oct 12, 2024 |
There are only three professions which are Doctor,lawyer and Engineer. If two fowls are fighting pin broom stick, they will fight until one gives up fhr Ghost. |
| Re: The 21 Lies Our Parents Told Us While We Were Growing Up In Africa by Bouncingbabyboy(m): 12:36am On Oct 13, 2024 |
omolola100:3 Leke Leke give me one finger 6 dem say if you do am for market you go see ghost 8 actually if you leave rubber for hand e go suck your blood 10 truly if you blow breeze for sharpener, e no go sharp again |
| Re: The 21 Lies Our Parents Told Us While We Were Growing Up In Africa by tanigororo: 7:21am On Oct 13, 2024 |
Tooh, can't wait to lie to my children too🥴 |
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