when I was around 4, my parents scared me half to death when they told me that the pips that I ate will grow in my stomach. I couldn't imagine that my stomach could grow to the size of a watermelon!
A childhood belief about seeds
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that if you ate the pips in apples a tree would grow inside your stomach.— QueenB
- I used to believe that if you ate a watermelon seed you would grow a watermelon tree in your stomach!!!— Eskimo
- I used to beleive that if you ate a black watermelon seed a tree would grow in your stomach— anonymous
- when i was 6 my mom told me that if you bit your nails a hand would grow in your stomachAnon
- i was told when i was young that if i swollowed gum my stomach would grow teeth to chew it— gammie
- My dad always told me never to swallow the pips from apples because trees would start growing in my stomach!!— ALISON W