You know those little black seeds in watermelons? I used to spend hours making sure I picked them all out of every slice because I was terrified that if I swallowed one I would grow a pumpkin out of my belly button.
A childhood belief about seeds
others believed things like this
- i used to believe that if you swallowed the seeds from apples, trees would grow out of your ears!— Scott Davenport
- If you swallowed a watermelon seed it would grow in your belly— Rachelle
- I used to believe that if you swallowed an apple seed, a tree would grow in your belly.— Rachel
- Eating watermellon seeds will make you grow a watermellon in your belly.Anon
- I use to believe (thanks to my Mom) that if I swallowed a watermelon seed a watermelon would grow in my belly.Anon
- Long grass with black seeds were really ant hotels, and the seeds were sleeping ants.— angelsheep