When I was younger, my older sis told me not to eat thore little black seeds in my watermelons. I did it and told her. She said, "Uh oh, now your skin is going to fall off, and your going to grow woatermelon gardens in your tummy." I believed her, and got really mad. To this day we laugh at it.
A childhood belief about watermelons
others believed things like this
- If you eat watermelon seeds a watermelon will grow in your tummy and vines will come out your earsAnon
- My mum always told me not to pick my nose and eat it because spiders would grow in my tummy......— Ben
- When I was little my dad told me that if you drank too much coffee it would make your skin turn black. Anon
- Long grass with black seeds were really ant hotels, and the seeds were sleeping ants.— angelsheep
- My friend told me that if you sucked your thumb, your skin would get all mushy and your thumb would fall off.— Lauren
- I didn't want to get tall when I was younger because I believed that I would fall over. — Gabi