When I was a child I was told by my mother babies happened when someone swallowed a watermelon seed...
...well, at the age of four, we had watermelon, and one can reasonably guess what happened. I was literally wailing and crying because I was convinced I was going to become pregnant >_<
A childhood belief about getting pregnant

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 believe that if I swallowed watermelon seeds, I would get pregnantAnon
- I used to believe that if I swallowed the watermelon seeds I'd get pregnant.— las peso
- i used to think if you ate a watermelon seed then after a while you'd become a watermelon
— olga british-girlyman