African Old Wives’ Tales

If a baby boy wears diapers, he will have fertility problems as an adult.
If you wear glasses you will damage your eyes, but carrots will “wash” your eyes.
Chameleons are dangerous and mzungus who handle them must put special chemicals on their hands when they do so.
If you sit on cooking stones, you will grow a cow’s tail.
Men and women who are interested in becoming more fertile should run around naked at night.
If you have joint aches and fever, it must be malaria.
A baby who does not wear a hat during the cool of the afternoon will not grow hair.
Chewing sugar cane cleans your teeth.
Ugali (and only ugali) makes you grow strong and healthy.

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