my friend was told by her mum that if she played with her belly button it would come undone and she'd have a hole for the rest of her life. She's turning 20 now and she will not, and i mean WILL NOT touch her belly button..
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
- I used to believe that if your belly button came undone your skin would fall off! Anon
- when i was young i was told that if i played with or turned my belly button that my bum would fall off — lee hull
- 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 my belly button was where I was once shot and that the navel was a healed up bullet hole— Tony
- I used to think that if i touched my belly button it would unfold and my belly would be inside out forever. Anon