My neighbor died of stomach cancer, but it was described to me at the age of 5 or 6 as "something growing inside of her." Thus, I envisioned cancer as a plant that kept growing inside of you until it killed you.
From then on, I was very careful about eating watermellon, apples, or anything else that might put a seed into my stomach and cause a plant to grow!
If you swallow a seed a plant will grow inside you.
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I used to think that if you swallowed an orange or an apple seed the tree would grow in your stomach.
This concerned me greatly when I accidentally swallowed some one day.
My mother set me straight on stomach acid and soil!
i was told by an older cousin that if i ate an apple pip i would grow apples in my tummy, i was terrified i would have an apple tree growing in my stomach for ages after i accidently ate one.
If I ever ate an apple as a girl I would never dare eat a pip as I believed an apple tree would grow in my tummy and eventually kill me. I still cannot swallow pips.
I used to believe that if I swallowed a seed a tree would grow inside me.
My sister tood me that if I ate sunflower seeds they would grow inside me. I used to have night terrors about giant flowers growing out of my eyes and mouth. Suprisingly I get on well with my sister despite her mental torture.
i used to believe that that if you ate the whole of the apple including the pips that an apple tree would grow out of my head.
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the first time i swallowed a cherry pip i was really scared a cherry tree would grow out of my tummy.
When I was little I used to believe that if I ate grapes with the pips in that a grape tree would grow out of my ears. Imagine my horror when one day I swallowed one by accident! I spent the whole night worrying that by the time I woke up I would have the branches sticking out of my ears and that I would have to go to school like that!
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That if you ate the pips out of oranges a orange tree would sprout out of you.
When I was about 6 I had a bad habit of swallowing the plum pip. After my mother told my I will grow in to a tree I never swallowed a pip of any type again!!
I used to believe that if I swallowed the pips from fruit that a tree would grow in my stomach and the branches would grow out of my ears, I used to have nightmares every time I swallowed a pip, I have never actually grown a tree in my stomach.
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When I was a kid I believed that if you swallowed a fruit pip that treees would grow from your ears.
My kindergarten teacher once told me that if I were to eat grapes with seeds, grapevines would grow out of my ears. Since I loved grapes I ate all of my friends grapeseeds too. Wouldn't it be neat to be able to pick grapes from your ears?
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I used to believe that a tree would grow inside you if you ate the seed of an apple or any other fruit!
My brother and I were convinced that if we swallowed any seeds, they would sprout inside us and grow, and we'd die a horrible death with branches poking out of our mouths,ears, belly button, and (uugh!) eyes. We still don't eat tomatoes.
One day while eating an apple I swallowed a pip. My Grandmother told me that an apple tree would grow in my stomach and I believed it for many years after - I was terrified of anything with pips.. especially oranges!
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I used to believe that, if you ate the core of an apple, the pips would sprout in your tummy and a tree would start growing and make you ill.
When I was little, I used to believe that if I eat grapes with seeds, a grape vine will be grown from my throat. So if I accidentally swallow a grape seed, I won't drink water that day so that the seed can't grow.
My nan used to tell me that if you swallow seeds, they will grow inside you. I remember once swallowing an apple seed and freaking out because I was convinced I would have a tree growing out of my mouth in the morning.
She used to also tell me that is I wore my socks in bed, I would get warts all over my feet.