My uncle told me if you twist your bellybutton, your bum will fall off, I was terrified!
A childhood belief about belly buttons

others believed things like this
- That if you fiddled with your bellybutton it would unscrew your bum and it would fall off— Sundaeg1rl
- I was told when young that if i kept poking my bellybutton my bum would drop off.— vicky
- my uncle was a doctor, so when he told me his vw could fly, i believed.— boodles
- If you touch your bellybutton, it will get infected.Anon
- Up until I was nine my uncle told me that the round bales of hay were cow eggs.— Fred
- I thought liposuction was squeezing the fat out of your bellybutton. Too bad it's not that easy...— Angela