My sister used to tell me that if she pressed the button on the hand brake of the car then it would blow up. She would taunt me with it until mum and dad got back.
I also used to believe that your belly button could come undone and you would fall apart. On a particularly hot day I had a bit of a sweatiy belly button and was convinced that it had come undone and I was leaking out from myt belly button, much to the amusement of my parents.
And finally my dad had my sister and I believing that elephants were frightened of mice because they ran up their trunks and ate their brains. I told everyone! Thanks dad
A childhood belief about cars
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that if your belly button came undone your skin would fall off! 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
- When I was a kid my dad told me that if you unscrewed your belly button your bum would fall off.— Ann
- i was told that if you fiddled with your belly-button too much, my bum would fall off.Anon
- My younger sister used to believe that in everybody's belly button there lived a family of squirrels.— Sophie
- 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