When I was little whenever I'd eat water melon my mom would tell me not to eat the seeds. Once I was eating it with my pregnant aunt and for years after that I thought if you swallowed the watermelon seeds, you grew a watermelon in your stomach.
A childhood belief about watermelons

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that if I swallowed watermelon seeds, I would get pregnantAnon
- I used to believe that if you swallowed watermelon seeds, they would dance around in your stomach at night.— jaalyn
- 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 think that watermelon seeds were dead soulsAnon