I was told when I was about 6 (I'm now 18) that if I kept eating the end of my pencil, a tree would grow inside of me.
A childhood belief about eating
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that a tree would grow inside you if you ate the seed of an apple or any other fruit!Anon
- I used to believe that if you ate the pips in apples a tree would grow inside your stomach.— QueenB
- When I was little I use to belief that if we swallowed the pit of a fruit, a tree would grow inside us.— Maya
- My Mom used to tell me if I swallowed an apple seed I would grow an apple tree inside my stomach!— Marg
- I used to believe that if I swallowed bubble gum, a bubble gum tree would grow inside of me. — Ryan
- I used to believe if you ate a seed from a fruit, a tree of that fruit would grow inside you — kels