When I was a little girl, my big sister got pregnant. In his own way, my father explained it to me...he told me that she had eaten a watermelon seed, and that it was growing in her belly, and that the same went for any fruit seed. I used to believe that she was growing a watermelon in her belly.
A childhood belief about reproduction
others believed things like this
- I use to believe (thanks to my Mom) that if I swallowed a watermelon seed a watermelon would grow in my belly.Anon
- If you swallowed a watermelon seed it would grow in your belly— Rachelle
- I used to believe that if you ate a watermelon seed you would grow a watermelon tree in your stomach!!!— Eskimo
- i used to think if you ate a watermelon seed then after a while you'd become a watermelon
— olga british-girlyman - I used to beleive that if you ate a black watermelon seed a tree would grow in your stomach— anonymous
- Once my brother said me, the poppy seed in fact is ant. I have not eaten poppy seed for many years.
Anon