I believed that if I ate watermelon seeds, watermelons would grow in my stomach and squeeze their way out of my belly button, so I tried inserting the seeds directly into my belly button instead of swallowing them. To my great disappointment I never grew any watermelons :(
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
- when you eat the seeds from a watermelon a watermelon will start to grow inside your stomache.Anon
- I used to think that if i touched my belly button it would unfold and my belly would be inside out forever. Anon
- Eating watermellon seeds will make you grow a watermellon in your belly.Anon
- I used to think that if i ate watermelon seeds they would grow out of my ears.— Catherine
- I used to believe that if you swallowed watermelon seeds, they would dance around in your stomach at night.— jaalyn