When I was little my dad told me if I played with my belly button too much it would come undone and all the food would fall out of my stomach. My brother was convinced he had a seed in his belly button and he picked it until it bled.
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 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
- I used to believe that the mole in my belly button was a poppy seed from a muffin I ate.Anon