My grandpa used to tell me that if I swallowed a watermelon seed that it would sprout and grow in my stomach. I used to imagine this happening and the vines of the watermelon growing out my ears.
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
- 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 believe that if you ate a watermelon seed you would grow a watermelon tree in your stomach!!!— Eskimo
- If you swallowed a watermelon seed it would grow in your belly— Rachelle
- I used to beleive that if you ate a black watermelon seed a tree would grow in your stomach— anonymous
- I used to think that if i ate watermelon seeds they would grow out of my ears.— Catherine