My entire family told me that my belly button was where the indians had shot me. They have all kinds of home video of them saying "Show us where the indians shot you" and me lifting up my shirt and pointing to my belly button.
A childhood belief about belly buttons

others believed things like this
- My dad told me when I was little that my belly button was "Where the Indian shot me"Anon
- 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
- I used to think your belly button was there to collect the lint of your shirt!Anon
- I used to think that if i touched my belly button it would unfold and my belly would be inside out forever. Anon
- 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