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February 28 is National Tooth Fairy Day, and what better time to look into the history of this fantasy figure! • Most of us grew up putting our baby teeth underneath our pillow or in a glass of water in hopes of being rewarded with payment for the lost tooth. Early European tradition was to bury the lost baby teeth. When the sixth tooth came out, the parents would slip money or a small gift under the child’s pillow. Medieval Europeans believed that if a witch were to gain possession of one’s tooth, she could gain total power over the individual, since having a piece of a person enabled the witch to cast dark spells on that person. • In England during the Middle Ages, the children’s teeth were burned as a means of saving the child from hardship in the afterlife. According to folklore, those who didn’t burn their teeth spent the eternal afterlife searching for them. • The Norse Vikings hung the teeth and small articles from their children on a string around their necks when heading into battle, believing this practice would bring good luck.
• Different countries have varying interpretations of what the tooth fairy looks like. North American images might be a pixie, a blue-winged mother figure, a flying ballerina, and even a flying man with a pot belly smoking a cigar. In Spanish and Hispanic cultures, the figure is known as Ratoncito Perez, or “The Tooth Mouse.” Italy’s character is also a small mouse, as it is in France and Belgium, where it is la petite souris, “The Little Mouse.” In Scotland, a white fairy rat purchases children’s teeth with coins. • The tradition in many Asian countries, including India, China, Japan, and Korea, is to throw the child’s tooth onto the roof if it was from the lower jaw. Teeth from the upper jaw are placed into the space beneath the floor. It is the hope that the child’s adult teeth will grow in strong and sturdy like a rodent’s, based on the fact that mice’s teeth grow for their entire lives. • One of the first written records of the tooth fairy appeared in a “Household Hints” column in the Chicago Daily Tribune in 1908. Columnist Lillian Brown wrote: “Many a refractory child will allow a loose tooth to be removed if he knows about the Tooth Fairy. If he takes his little tooth and puts it under the pillow when he goes to bed, the tooth fairy will come in the night and take it away, and in its place will leave some little gift. It is a nice plan for mothers to visit the 5-cent counter and lay in a supply of supplies to be used on such occasions.”
• One American author, Vicki Lansky, advises parents to tell their children that the tooth fairy pays more for a perfect tooth than for a decayed one, which will encourage good dental hygiene.
• Rosemary Wells, a professor at Chicago’s Northwestern University Dental School, conducted extensive research into the tooth fairy myth. One of her studies concluded that 74% believed the tooth fairy is female, 12% believed the fairy was neither, while 8% believed the fairy could be either. Wells loved the subject so much, she opened a tooth fairy museum in her Deerfield, IL home, and was even interviewed on “The Oprah Winfrey Show.” • A recent survey indicated that the average American child these days receives an average of $3.70 per tooth.
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