If you played with your belly button the knot that the midwife tied would come undone and all your insides would fall out. Even know I don't like my belly button being touched!!!
A childhood belief about belly buttons
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that if your belly button came undone your skin would fall off! Anon
- when i was young i was told that if i played with or turned my belly button that my bum would fall off — lee hull
- I used to think that if i touched my belly button it would unfold and my belly would be inside out forever. Anon
- I used to beleive if your belly button came undone all the air would go out of your body and you would die.— kate
- I used to believe your belly button was a knot that held you together - my parents had wierd anatomical views— anne
- i used to believe that playing with your belly button would lead to your insides pouring outAnon