When I was little my grandfather had a wart on his thumb. He called it a planters wart. I asked him why and he said that if you play outside and don't wash your hands then a little seed would take root in your skin and grow a plant that would sprout into a little tree. Hygene got better for me but I got obsessive-compulsive about skin.
A childhood belief about skin
others believed things like this
- My friend told me that if you sucked your thumb, your skin would get all mushy and your thumb would fall off.— Lauren
- if you eat a seed, the plant will grow in your tummyAnon
- In 'Call Me Maybe', I misheard 'Ripped jeans skin' as 'Rich cheese skin'. — Carly Rae Cheddar
- I used to believe that a tree would grow inside you if you ate the seed of an apple or any other fruit!Anon
- I used to believe that if you swallowed an apple seed, a tree would grow in your belly.— Rachel
- I used to beleive that if you ate a black watermelon seed a tree would grow in your stomach— anonymous