My cousin and I thought if you swallowed a watermellon seed you'd grow a watermellon in your stomach. We paniced when we did swallow one because we remembered eating dirt a few weeks before and at 6 yrs. old were smart enough to know you plant seeds in dirt and water them - they grow!
A childhood belief about seeds
others believed things like this
- Eating watermellon seeds will make you grow a watermellon in your belly.Anon
- the if you swallowed a fly by accident that you would then grow an appetite for dirt.— sarah
- I used to believe that if I ate a fruit's seeds, a plant would grow in my stomach.— Natalia Castillejo
- I used to think that if I ate a fruit seed it would grow in my stomach if I drink water after thatAnon
- 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 u didnt wash behind your ears potatos would grow in the dirt— michelle