My grandmother told me when I was about 7 or 8 that if you swallowed the watermelon seeds and you drank too much water the seeds would grow and you'd get this enormous belly. I believed her! She convinced me by showing me all the beer bellys at the lake where we water-skied. There were plenty of them and I thought for the longest time it was because they swallowed the watermelon seeds. Pitiful! ha ha ha
A childhood belief about seeds
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that if I swallowed watermelon seeds, I would get pregnantAnon
- I used to believe that if you swallowed watermelon seeds, they would dance around in your stomach at night.— jaalyn
- If you eat watermelon seeds a watermelon will grow in your tummy and vines will come out your earsAnon
- when you eat the seeds from a watermelon a watermelon will start to grow inside your stomache.Anon
- I use to believe (thanks to my Mom) that if I swallowed a watermelon seed a watermelon would grow in my belly.Anon
- I used to think that if i ate watermelon seeds they would grow out of my ears.— Catherine