I used to believe that if your belly button came undone your skin would fall off!
A childhood belief about belly buttons

others believed things like this
- I used to beleive if your belly button came undone all the air would go out of your body and you would die.— kate
- My mom says that when she was growing up, she thought that her belly button was where her skin came together.— Dana
- 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 if you fiddled with your belly-button too much, my bum would fall off.Anon
- someone could unscrew my belly button, and if they did, my head would fall offAnon
- I believed that if you pushed your belly button, your bum would fall off.— Wendy