Romani folklore contains a mystical belief that pumpkins and watermelons left out too long or kept during a full moon will become vampiric and start moving around on their own.

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Romani folklore contains a mystical belief that pumpkins and watermelons left out too long or kept during a full moon will become vampiric and start moving around on their own. Instead of worrying about a charismatic Transylvanian aristocrat sucking your blood, you had to legitimately fear that your forgotten produce would start shaking and terrorizing the village. The idea that a slightly rotting melon could become a supernatural creature of the night is absolutely hilarious, especially since they supposedly have no teeth and cannot actually bite anyone. It really goes to show that human beings are so incredibly paranoid about the supernatural that we will even ascribe demonic intentions to a perfectly innocent fruit salad