When I was little my cousin was pregnant . I asked why she had such a big tummy. She told me that she swallowed a watermellon seed and it grew. From that point on I never ate watermellons
A childhood belief about watermelons

others believed things like this
- Eating watermellon seeds will make you grow a watermellon in your belly.Anon
- my nanna told me if I swallowed gum that I would have a gum tree growing out of my tummy— ms pouty
- if you eat a seed, the plant will grow in your tummyAnon
- If you swallowed a watermelon seed it would grow in your belly— Rachelle
- I used to beleive, that if you swallowed a seed the food would grow in your body.Anon
- I used to believe that if you swallowed an apple seed, a tree would grow in your belly.— Rachel