My grandmother used to believe that they way you got pregnanut was to swallow a watermellon seed. She was terified of eating watermellon for a long time after that.
A childhood belief about getting pregnant
others believed things like this
- Eating watermellon seeds will make you grow a watermellon in your belly.Anon
- Once my brother said me, the poppy seed in fact is ant. I have not eaten poppy seed for many years.
Anon - My parents told me I was found under a gooseberry bush which I thought odd for a long long time.— Kate
- I used to believe eating fish enables me to live underwater and eating veggy makes me prettier!— Melody
- My friend believed that eating bread crusts or eating mustard will give you curly hair.— Linda from Southern California
- I used to believe that toilets would open and swallow you up because they got dirty!!— swallowing toilet