I always thought if someone wanted a black baby they ate a watermelon seed and if someone wanted a white baby they ate a cantelope seed. If someone had twins that meant they accidentally swollowed more than one seed. I was ALWAYS very, very careful when eating either of these melons.
A childhood belief about reproduction
others believed things like this
- I believed that women who wanted babies ate a seed, which then grew into their baby. — World's Worst Scientist
- I used to beleive that if you ate a black watermelon seed a tree would grow in your stomach— anonymous
- I used to believe that if you ate a watermelon seed you would grow a watermelon tree in your stomach!!!— Eskimo
- I use to believe (thanks to my Mom) that if I swallowed a watermelon seed a watermelon would grow in my belly.Anon
- Once my brother said me, the poppy seed in fact is ant. I have not eaten poppy seed for many years.
Anon - If you swallowed a watermelon seed it would grow in your belly— Rachelle