My whole family would always get together at my Grandmother's house in the country to celebrate 4th of July. One year when my cousin Tommy was about 6 years old, he suddenly started crying and totally freaking out. My older cousin and I finally got him to calm down enough to speak. He was upset because he had swallowed a watermelon seed. One of the kids at his school had told him that if he swallowed a seed it would grow roots in his belly and branches all up inside of his brain.
A childhood belief about seeds
you weren't the only one
237 of you believed this
- i used to believe that if you swallowed the seeds from apples, trees would grow out of your ears!— Scott Davenport
- if you eat a seed, the plant will grow in your tummyAnon
- When I was little I use to belief that if we swallowed the pit of a fruit, a tree would grow inside us.— Maya
- when you eat the seeds from a watermelon a watermelon will start to grow inside your stomache.Anon
- I used to think that if you ate nuts and seeds that minature trees woudl grow in your stomach.— Gillian
- I used to believe that if you ate the pips in apples a tree would grow inside your stomach.— QueenB