when i was little one of my friends told me if i swallowed a watermelon seed a watermelon would grow in my stomach and it would take over my body!!!!! but watermelons were my favorite food and one day my mom bought one and i refused to eat it and i told her why and she told me it wasnt true!!
A childhood belief about watermelons

others believed things like this
- I use to believe (thanks to my Mom) that if I swallowed a watermelon seed a watermelon would grow in my belly.Anon
- I used to believe that if you ate a watermelon seed you would grow a watermelon tree in your stomach!!!— Eskimo
- If you swallowed a watermelon seed it would grow in your belly— Rachelle
- I used to beleive that if you ate a black watermelon seed a tree would grow in your stomach— anonymous
- 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 watermelon seeds, they would dance around in your stomach at night.— jaalyn