yes I found that a very scary story, Pinocchio - only topped for me by the one where there's this man with a pair of scissors running around cutting children's thumbs off. I mean you could be fast asleep and your thumb get cut off - ugh! who doesn't suck their thumb on occasion.
Yes it's a mountain of lies isn't it. The excuse given for making children stop sucking their thumbs was it made their teeth stick out - so what about all the people who sucked their thumbs and didn't have an over bite, surely someone thought ask that.
Having read the link 13 posted one thing is laid to rest - I am now quite convinced our noses don't really keep growing.