When i was little I used to pull on my belly button. My Grandma once convinced me that if i kept pulling on it then it would get longer and longer until it went to the floor! I believed this until I was about 10.
A childhood belief about belly buttons

others believed things like this
- I believed that if you pushed your belly button, your bum would fall off.— Wendy
- I used to think that if i touched my belly button it would unfold and my belly would be inside out forever. Anon
- babies come out of your belly button— Kit
- when I was a kid I thought that babies come out of a belly-button.— Ana
- 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 your belly button is where you put salt when you eat apples in bed.— Shurnuff