My best friend thought that if you swallowed a watermellon seed, you'd grow a baby and that was how people became pregnant. She didn't eat watermellon for many years.
She also thought that moonbeams came out of her bellybutton at night.
A childhood belief about watermelons
others believed things like this
- Eating watermellon seeds will make you grow a watermellon in your belly.Anon
- 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
- My Mom used to tell me if I swallowed an apple seed I would grow an apple tree inside my stomach!— Marg
- I use to believe (thanks to my Mom) that if I swallowed a watermelon seed a watermelon would grow in my belly.Anon