I asked my dad (when he was naked after taking a bath) what his belly button was. He said that it was from where the Indian shot him with an arrow. It never occurred to me to ask where MY navel came from.
A childhood belief about belly buttons
others believed things like this
- 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
- My dad told me when I was little that my belly button was "Where the Indian shot me"Anon
- When I was little I thought the navel was a button to turn people off and on.
— James - 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