My grandpa said that if I ate watermelon seeds that a watermelon would grow in my tummy; everytime I accidentally I was SO scared that one would grow and it just wouldn't fit down there. Haha.
A childhood belief about eating

others believed things like this
- 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 think that if i ate watermelon seeds they would grow out of my ears.— Catherine
- 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
- If you swallowed a watermelon seed it would grow in your belly— Rachelle