When I watched a horror movie on HBO as a kid (namely Alien or The Evil), my stomach was very knotted. I figured that it was because my stomach could view the movie as well, so I would stand behind a chair to shield my stomach from the horrible scenes.
A childhood belief about general

others believed things like this
- I thought a stomach ache was a stomach egg— Catherine
- when i was little i believed that when we watched a movie people had to act the movie all over a gen.
— Emmer - My Mom used to tell us that if you bit your fingernails, they would cut a hole in your stomach.— Linda B
- I use to believe that if I ate to much sugar just by itself, it would become worms inside my stomach.Anon
- I used to think that if I ate sugar out of the sugarbowl I would get worms in my stomach.— Arc
- i used to believe that if i bit my fingernails then a finger would grow in my stomach— polly