My neighbor died of stomach cancer, but it was described to me at the age of 5 or 6 as "something growing inside of her." Thus, I envisioned cancer as a plant that kept growing inside of you until it killed you.
From then on, I was very careful about eating watermellon, apples, or anything else that might put a seed into my stomach and cause a plant to grow!
A childhood belief about seeds
you weren't the only one
237 of you believed this
- i used to believe that if you swallowed the seeds from apples, trees would grow out of your ears!— Scott Davenport
- if you eat a seed, the plant will grow in your tummyAnon
- When I was little I use to belief that if we swallowed the pit of a fruit, a tree would grow inside us.— Maya
- when you eat the seeds from a watermelon a watermelon will start to grow inside your stomache.Anon
- I used to think that if you ate nuts and seeds that minature trees woudl grow in your stomach.— Gillian
- I used to believe that if you ate the pips in apples a tree would grow inside your stomach.— QueenB