My nan once told me that if you swallowed a watermelon seed, one would grow inside you. I did that one day when I was about 6 and I had never been so scared in my life. Even after everyone told me it couldnt happen, I was still wary of them until I was about 16
A childhood belief about seeds
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
- My Mom used to tell me if I swallowed an apple seed I would grow an apple tree inside my stomach!— Marg
- when you eat the seeds from a watermelon a watermelon will start to grow inside your stomache.Anon
- I used to beleive that if you ate a black watermelon seed a tree would grow in your stomach— anonymous