WHEN I WAS LITTLE MY OLDER BROTHER TOLD ME THAT IF I ATE WATERMELON PIPS THEN WATERMELONS WOULD START GROWING OUT MY EARS AND NOSE SO I WAS ALWAYS TO SCARED TO EAT IT
A childhood belief about seeds
others believed things like this
- My dad always told me never to swallow the pips from apples because trees would start growing in my stomach!!— ALISON W
- If you eat watermelon seeds a watermelon will grow in your tummy and vines will come out your earsAnon
- when you eat the seeds from a watermelon a watermelon will start to grow inside your stomache.Anon
- My uncle told me that if I didn't wash my ears when I took a bath, corn would start going out of them.— Ebod
- I used to think that if i ate watermelon seeds they would grow out of my ears.— Catherine
- I used to believe that cows mooed out of their ears-because my older sister told me they did.— ella