Mom told me that potatoes grew behind my ears unless I washed there every night before going to bed. She also told me that if I ate watermelon seeds that they would grow into full sized watermelons and she would have to harvest them with a knife. Needless to say I was terrified of this radical kind of surgery.
A childhood belief about seeds
others believed things like this
- If you eat watermelon seeds a watermelon will grow in your tummy and vines will come out your earsAnon
- I used to think that if i ate watermelon seeds they would grow out of my ears.— Catherine
- when you eat the seeds from a watermelon a watermelon will start to grow inside your stomache.Anon
- i used to believe that if you swallowed the seeds from apples, trees would grow out of your ears!— Scott Davenport
- I used to believe that if you swallowed watermelon seeds, they would dance around in your stomach at night.— jaalyn
- When I was little my big brother told me that if I ate raw potatoes my teeth would grow curly. — Lauren