When I was a little girl, my soon-to-be stepmother would tell me that if I swallowed my gum, a big gum tree would grow in my belly and it would take 7 years to come out.
A childhood belief about chewing gum
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that if you swallowed an apple seed, a tree would grow in your belly.— Rachel
- i used to believe that if i swallowed beens,,a tree would grow in my stomach :P— fatma
- I thought that if I swallowed grapestones, a tree would grow out from my stomach. — Tone
- When I was little I use to belief that if we swallowed the pit of a fruit, a tree would grow inside us.— Maya
- If you swallowed a watermelon seed it would grow in your belly— Rachelle
- My Mom used to tell me if I swallowed an apple seed I would grow an apple tree inside my stomach!— Marg