When I was in elementary school my teacher got pregnant & told us that her belly was growing because she ate a watermelon and the seeds were growing in her belly. To this day I don't eat watermelon.
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
- If you eat watermelon seeds a watermelon will grow in your tummy and vines will come out your earsAnon
- when you eat the seeds from a watermelon a watermelon will start to grow inside your stomache.Anon
- I used to believe that if I swallowed watermelon seeds, I would get pregnantAnon
- If you swallowed a watermelon seed it would grow in your belly— Rachelle
- In primary school, a whole bunch of kids including me believed that watermelon seeds contained ants. — Caff