What did your parents tell you to scare you off when you were a kid?

Hello welcome to mylot My parents, to be exact my mom, i was more close to her than my dad, used to scare me, telling if you do this, that ghost will come, be careful.. But my dad disliked that always.. Thanks for sharing. Welcome always. Cheers. Professor

hahahha..., i used to be told of certain stories about wounds oozing with blood when i was a kid too..and i got really scared..so every time i'm wounded.., i would cover iut with clothe so that i won't be able to see when the headless priest comes out from it...hahahha...that was what my mother told me.. and i would laugh at how innocent i was back then...=)

I don't remember my parents ever doing that, but I did it to my kids. We lived in Florida, and our house had woods on one side. The kids were little, about 3 and 4. We had a big yard, and they played outside almost all the time. The thing that bothered me was that there were black widow spiders in the woods. Hubby and I wanted to make sure they stayed out of there, so we told them there was a monster that lived in the woods...a cyclops to be exact. Well, they did stay out of the woods, so I guess telling them that fairy tale was the lesser of two evils.