belly buttons

When I was in kindergarten my friend told me that your belly button was where the doctor tied a knot when he cut your umbiblical cord. She also told me that if you itched it too much you'd come untied and all your guts would spill everywhere and you'd die. Needless to say, I never touched my belly button after that.

Emily

My friend and I told her little sister that her belly button was where her parent blew her up and tied the knot. Her sister was mortified and ran and asked her mom....

JP

When I was little I was in a car accident. My intestines were severed, and they needed to drain stuffs from me. So I was sliced open. There is a scar on my stomach that looks a little bit like a belly button. The doctors told me it was a second one, in case the other one fell off. I definately believed them. For a long time.

Abby

I had a friend who told me that if I ate the seeds in the apples an appletree would grow from my belly button. I belivede her!

Lise-lotte

I used to believe that if someone squirted water directly into your bellybutton,say with a water gun, you would die.

Krista

When I was little, my uncle warned me that my leg would fall off if I untwisted my belly button. I said, "It will not!" but then later, when I was alone, I carefully tried to untwist my belly button to see which leg would fall off.

Sarah Jean

i use to believe that belly buttons are the parts involved during sex, that is that belly button of male and female gets tied and they will have baby...after seeing some dogs in my street having connected backwards!

yang

This one is actually my sister's. When she was about 4 she asked my mom what the belly button was for. My mom told her it was connected to your butt and it held it up by a string.

Well, years went by and my sister was in middle school. She had to take the requisite sex-ed class and the teacher asked if anyone knew what the belly button was for. My sister's hand shot up and she said, "I know, I know. It holds your butt up!" Everyone in the class started laughing at her and she was mortified, and to this day (she is now 38) I think she is still upset with my mom about it.

Anon

Just recently I stopped believing if you rip out your belly button there would be a cord and it would let your spirit free.

needless to say if depression kicked in people'd always say "Did someone stab you?"

Anon

When I was about 5, I used to believe that when a woman got pregnant, all she needed to do was press her belly button, and a baby would pop out.

Rosie Young

This isn't my belief, but a friend of mines. It was the funniest one I've heard. When she was young, she believed that if you poked your belly button, you would fly.

Anon

This one is my mothers really. Her grandpa used to tell her that if she unscrewed her belly button her arms and legs would fall off. That's one of those that was so graciously past down to me. I had forgotten all about until today. I'll have to tell my daughter tommorow!

PeanutLuLu

when i was younger i used to mess with my belly button all the time because i didnt have a innie or outie my belly button was level with my stomach & my father us to tell that the belly button kept me alive in my mothers stomachwhen i was a baby& if i keep messing with it i would die .he never explain why it kept me alive. so up to this day i am terrified of people messing with my belly button

leelee

Sadly to this day I won't let anyone poke my belly button in fear of them poking into my stomache.

Holly

I used to think that babies were made when you press your mums belly button.
Then a baby would fall out

Chris Hyndman

I used to believe that my belly button might come untied and I'd deflate and die. For years I was always looking at my belly button and freaked out crying if it ever looked weird in anyway. I was always getting yelled at in class for sitting with my finger in my belly button all day.

Charity

When I was around 7 years old, I asked my mother what the Belly button is for. She told me "that's where the chord connects from a mother to her baby before it's born." I replied "But *I'm* never gonna have a baby? Why do I have one?" My mother didn't understand my question, and I started believing she didn't know what she was talking about.

Apparently, I believed that was the place the chord would eventually form, from the inside out.

Itty