my friend was told by her mum that if she played with her belly button it would come undone and she'd have a hole for the rest of her life. She's turning 20 now and she will not, and i mean WILL NOT touch her belly button..

reggie

When I was younger I believed that to get babies out of their mothers stomachs you pressed their belly buttons and out they popped. How niave

Sam Harvey

For ages after watching home alone, I believed that babys were born through the belly button & men only had belly buttons so they new where to pull there swimming trunks up to.

k!tty

I used to (ok, the habit stuck, I still do) stick my finger in my belly button. My parents told me that if I took my finger out, all the air would come out. I was terrified that I would die if "all the air came out."

Ruth

My gran thought that if I got my bellybutton peirced I wouldn't be able to have children as they would need to feed off my umbillicle cord.

Bee

If you undo your belly-button with a screwdriver, your legs will fall off.

Toby

When I was about 4 years old, my mom said if I swallowed to much gum, my belly botton would get so big, you could see through!

Erica

I used to believe that if you got all the black bits out of your belly-button, your insides would fall out ! I believed that untill I was about 10 then realised it was dirt and not seeds which I thaught I was born with to keep my insides inside!

Bev

i used to belive that if yo played with you belly utton that all your skin would unravel

steven sean john johnston

iwas told by an uncle that if you played with your belly button, that worms would come out. to this day it makes me nauseated to touch my belly button.

mintpatty57

I used to believe that as you grew taller/larger, your skin grew out of your belly button to cover your extra inchs. One day I put a biro circle round my belly button and watched for ages to see if the biro mark moved. Obviously I had a lot of time on my hands when I was younger!!!!

Sara

Untill the day my mother was born, my grandmother believed that the birth of a child was through her belly button!

Engruppo.com

My mother had 5 children, including me. Since I knew that the belly button had something to do with birth, until I was, say, about 10 ys old I believed my mom had 5 belly buttons, one for each of her children. And it was not easy to see your mom naked in those times, so I kept believing it for a good while.

Nelson

I used to believe that if I picked in my belly button it would open up.

Amy

When I was three, my older sister told me that my belly button is what held my skin on. Then she frequently tried to "unbutton" me.

Karen