When I was about five years old, I accidentally swallowed a watermellon seed and my step-father told me that it would grow in my belly. I started crying hysterically because I thought I was going to get fat and blow up.
A childhood belief about seeds
others believed things like this
- Eating watermellon seeds will make you grow a watermellon in your belly.Anon
- 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
- 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 beleive, that if you swallowed a seed the food would grow in your body.Anon
- My Mom used to tell me if I swallowed an apple seed I would grow an apple tree inside my stomach!— Marg