₦airaland Forum

Our parents filled our childhood with wild stories that made us scared of everything—from eating mangoes to looking in mirrors at night. These funny myths were their clever way of keeping us on track, and even now, we can’t help but laugh (and cringe) at how much we believed them. Despite the fact that this are not factual, most of us cant still try this practices even as we have grown to adulthood. For example our parent told us that whoever took soft drink like minerals after eating mango will die. Despite been fallacious, none of us had ever attempted to try it even as we have advanced to adulthood.

Here are the other 21 lies our parents told us


1. If you drink garri or coke after eating mango, you'll d!e.

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.

Lying to your children is a cruel thing to do.

Old men don't lie.. grow up son

pussygotlips:
➜Old men don't lie.. grow up son

Yep, and that is why the country is filled and ruled with so many lying old men and women to this day. 🙄🙄🙄

LOL, i can relate with 2,4,6,8,11 and 17

I can still remember how mom really made me scared of those lies


I just dey laugh now

Na to pass am down to my upcomings remain

Kobojunkie:
Yep, and that is why the country is filled and ruled with so many lying old men and women to this day. 🙄🙄🙄

Don't worry you will be old enough too

pussygotlips:
➜Don't worry you will be old enough too

I would rather remain a child than become one of your lying old people.

It is mandatory to eat meat (protein) as the last thing during a meal...

illicit:
It is mandatory to eat meat (protein) as the last thing during a meal...

The eating of protein is good for you. You typically want to eat protein with each meal so you can get your daily protein intake at the end of the day. The average individual is expected to consume about 50 - 80g of protein each day, and if you check well, it is sometimes not easy unless you are intentional about it. Also, Protein is very much missing from the typical African diet.

Kobojunkie:
The eating of protein is good for you. You typically want to eat protein with each meal so you can get your daily protein intake at the end of the day. The average individual is expected to consume about 50 - 80g of protein each day, and if you check well, it is sometimes not easy unless you are intentional about it. Also, Protein is very much missing from the typical African diet.

In Africa, eating more meat is the father or mothers right or your elder siblings or relatives

Those people don't really need the protein as much as the little ones

Yet the little ones get the least meat just because they are the youngest even though they need the protein more...

illicit:
➜In Africa, eating more meat is the father or mothers right or your elder siblings or relatives. Those people don't really need the protein as much as the little ones. Yet the little ones get the least meat just because they are the youngest even though they need the protein more...

Actually, everybody in the house needs protein, and that is where the problem at the African meal table exists. Not enough protein is going around for all. Children definitely need to have their protein with every meal, and the adults in the house equally do; the older/fatter ones need more protein because of their weight. So, it is sad that the African meal table deprives some of needed protein, while those who get it still barely get enough of their daily need met.

Some where true, maybe i put faith

muyico:
Some where true, maybe i put faith

Are you insinuating that your faith makes lies true? And people wonder why I go around revealing that religion is nothing but a scam fashioned against the mental capacities of individuals?

This is very interesting. I wonder if they can move this to front-page

I'd heard most of these when I was a kid but non of them came from my parents. Instead they used to debunk them. It was mostly older children from our compound that used to say them

Some were safety 🦺 measure, they using it to scared us from be greedy, cleaness,

muyico:
Some were safety 🦺 measure, they using it to scared us from be greedy, cleaness,

Lies as safety measures? Sounds so much like manipulative tactics, same as that employed by politicians against the people... how has that worked out for anyone?

Let me add my own.

-If you drank coconut water,you will be a dullard.

-If you drive nail into the ground when two fowls are fighting or two dogs are copulating,the fowls will fight themselves to death and the copulating dogs won't be able to separate from each others.

-If a male child is beaten with a broom,the child will become impotent

-If you offend your teacher at school,to avoid punishment and for the teacher to forget your misdeed,just pluck the hairs on your head,your eyebrows and your armpits plus your ten fingernails and place everything on the way the teacher will pass,so he/she will step over it,and the case will be forgotten(I tried this once,and the beating I received that day from Mr Abiona,I won't forget it till today).

No 10 is actually true

Kobojunkie:
Lying to your children is a cruel thing to do.

It's a way to guide them in such a way they will b able to interpret the truth in the future.
For instance, Example is 16

BItt:
✓ It's a way to guide them in such a way they will b able to interpret the truth in the future. For instance, Example is 16

How can lying enable ability to recognize or even interpret truth? How does that work when the facts on ground is that a majority who were raised in lies never ever recover to recognize truth from all of the lies they have been surrounded with all of their lives?

How has 16 ever helped in actually curbing the girl pregnancy rate which remains at an all time high to this very day?

Number 10 is absolutely correct. I remember blowing air in my sharpener during my primary school days and it stopped sharpening my pencil.

Even shaving stick and electric clipper. If you blow air inside them, they would loose their sharpness.

Hahahaha...
That tying of leaves come fail me one day as my mama beat shege comot for my eyes d day we came back late from d stream because we wasted time dia dey swim. As we dey come back na so we go tie d leaves so our mama no go talk but d thing ni work dat day. Myama put my head in-between her laps and hit me wetin tinker dey hit pan

Wisewriter:
Our parents filled our childhood with wild stories that made us scared of everything—from eating mangoes to looking in mirrors at night. These funny myths were their clever way of keeping us on track, and even now, we can’t help but laugh (and cringe) at how much we believed them. Despite the fact that this are not factual, most of us cant still try this practices even as we have grown to adulthood. For example our parent told us that whoever took soft drink like minerals after eating mango will die. Despite been fallacious, none of us had ever attempted to try it even as we have advanced to adulthood.

Here are the other 21 lies our parents told us


1. If you drink garri or coke after eating mango, you'll d!e.

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.

Olboy, you tried remembering all these things oo.
But most were told by elder siblings, cousins, neighbours, friends, school mates, etc, and not exactly by our parents.
The only thing is the parents never refuted them even when they heard them.

These ones I am not familiar with. 7, 9, 11, 12, 13, 15, and 18.

The rest, I can relate with.

Kobojunkie:
The eating of protein is good for you. You typically want to eat protein with each meal so you can get your daily protein intake at the end of the day. The average individual is expected to consume about 50 - 80g of protein each day, and if you check well, it is sometimes not easy unless you are intentional about it. Also, Protein is very much missing from the typical African diet.

You're always off the track.
The guy was referring to the unwritten tradition of keeping meats for the last during meals in many Nigerian families, not whether protein is important or not.
I still believe you could be a bot, anyway.

bukiah:
No 10 is actually true

How's that possible?

Axis313:
-If you offend your teacher at school,to avoid punishment and for the teacher to forget your misdeed,just pluck the hairs on your head,your eyebrows and your armpits plus your ten fingernails and place everything on the way the teacher will pass,so he/she will step over it,and the case will be forgotten(I tried this once,and the beating I received that day from Mr Abiona,I won't forget it till today).

LMAO!

What I see here are childish ways our elders attempted to reach us morals with subtle threats.

ChybuzzDD:
How's that possible?

just try it and give me feedback. That sharpener will not sharpen again

These are stories actually told to children to control their behaviours.