When I was about 4 or 5 I stayed with my grandparents a lot during the summer. One afternoon we were eating watermelon and I swallowed a seed. I told my grandmother and she quickly covered my mouth with her hand and told me not to open my mouth while I was outside because all that sun would grow a watermelon in my belly. I kept my mouth shut for a while after that!
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 swallowed a watermelon seed it would grow in your belly— Rachelle
- I used to believe that if you ate a watermelon seed you would grow a watermelon tree in your stomach!!!— Eskimo
- I used to tape my mouth shut at night in case a spider would come along and make a web in my belly.Anon
- I used to believe that if you told a lie, Dragonflies will come and sew your mouth shut. For real.— Casey
- my brother told me that if i ride my bike with my mouth open i will swallow my tounge. Anon