When i was little my friend told me that her mum died because she kept picking her belly button and if u poke your navel you get cancer .. i have never poked my navel since.
A childhood belief about belly buttons
others believed things like this
- 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
- When I was little I thought the navel was a button to turn people off and on.
— James - i used to believe that playin with my navel would cause me 2 fall apart like a toy.— Brianna F.
- I used to believe that if I poked my grandfather in the belly-button he would spit out quarters. — Justin
- i used to believe that if you poked yerr belly button yerr butt would fall off.— jordy
- I used to think that if i touched my belly button it would unfold and my belly would be inside out forever. Anon