When I was younger, I would always stick my finger in my belly button. But one day, my brother told me that ants would start crawling out of my belly button if I kept putting my finger in there! I never put my finger in my belly button again!
A childhood belief about belly buttons
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that If I stuck my finger really far inside of my belly button I could touch my insides.Anon
- I used to think that if i touched my belly button it would unfold and my belly would be inside out forever. Anon
- I used to believe that my belly button was for putting salt in while in bed, eating fish and chips.— Julie F
- My younger sister used to believe that in everybody's belly button there lived a family of squirrels.— Sophie
- 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