I thought that if you swallowed watermelon, peach, plum seeds etc. an actual tree, or patch (whatever the case may be) would begin to grow out of your mouth.
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 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 I swallowed watermelon seeds, I would get pregnantAnon
- I used to believe that if you ate a watermelon seed you would grow a watermelon tree in your stomach!!!— Eskimo
- I used to believe that if you swallowed watermelon seeds, they would dance around in your stomach at night.— jaalyn