When I was three my parents took me to a petting zoo for a treat. I went to pet a billy goat who, for some unremembered reason, rammed his head into me. I thought I'd been butted by his horns so I pulled up my t-shirt to see if I'd been cut. Lo and behold I did have a small hole in my tummy. Yes folks, it was my belly button but I didn't know this so for years I believed it was due to being headbutted by a goat.
A childhood belief about belly buttons
others believed things like this
- I used to think your belly button was there to collect the lint of your shirt!Anon
- When we were little my sister thought if you mixed cow’s milk and water you’d get goat’s milkAnon
- I used to think that my belly button was where I was once shot and that the navel was a healed up bullet hole— Tony
- someone could unscrew my belly button, and if they did, my head would fall offAnon
- I used to believe your belly button was a knot that held you together - my parents had wierd anatomical views— anne
- I believed that if you pushed your belly button, your bum would fall off.— Wendy