When I was young, a neighbor kid told me that the seeds on the inside of persimmons were goblin eggs and if you opened one up the seeds would grow into goblins that would hide in your bedroom! I concentrated all year to not run over them with my bike.
A childhood belief about monsters
others believed things like this
- Long grass with black seeds were really ant hotels, and the seeds were sleeping ants.— angelsheep
- 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 I ate a fruit's seeds, a plant would grow in my stomach.— Natalia Castillejo
- I used to believe that if I ate any seeds of any fruit, it would grow a tree in my stomach.— Julia
- i used to believe that if you swallowed the seeds from apples, trees would grow out of your ears!— Scott Davenport