My mom used to tell me that I musn't eat anything but the pink part of the watermelon. She said that the pips would grow in my tummy, and that the green part by the skin would kill me if I ate 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 grandpa told me that edible part of the watermelon was blue until you cut them open. Anon
- when you eat the seeds from a watermelon a watermelon will start to grow inside your stomache.Anon
- 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
- when I was little my uncle told me he was part bear. I believed people could be part bear until I was twelve. — Audrey