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Here is some pointless information about the history of the tooth fairy.
Today we all know, or should do, that the tooth fairy is our parents (and no i'm not calling anyones dad gay). Anyway when we lose a tooth we put it under our pillow and in the night it gets exchanged for a small sum of money, 20p for small tooth maybe and 50p for a biggun (unless you lot used to get fivers or twentys which i doubt). In the USA legend has it that the tooth fairy was a very small fairy who came along and took your teeth up to her tower, and used as she pleased. God only knows what she used them for, maybe small chairs or she cut them into tiny little bathroom tiles?
In England the story of the tooth fairy used to be a little different. Upon losing a tooth the child must throw it into the fire to save looking for it upon death. Medieval legend also told that if witches threw peoples teeth or hair into a fire they got power over them. This tale may have been used to scare children into keeping or burning their own teeth.
The Vikings also had some sort of tooth phenomenon. Viking children used to string their lost teeth onto a necklace. Vikings also believed that having a child or a childs possession in battle would bring them good luck. I'm sure they would get done for child abuse or paedophilic actions if they were around now.
Anyway nowadays its just a little bit of fun. Not really any story behind it, spose its just like a celebration of the passing of childhood. Anyway i thought this information was quite interesting, but kind of pointless. Could help you in a pub quiz though...
Odin
Today we all know, or should do, that the tooth fairy is our parents (and no i'm not calling anyones dad gay). Anyway when we lose a tooth we put it under our pillow and in the night it gets exchanged for a small sum of money, 20p for small tooth maybe and 50p for a biggun (unless you lot used to get fivers or twentys which i doubt). In the USA legend has it that the tooth fairy was a very small fairy who came along and took your teeth up to her tower, and used as she pleased. God only knows what she used them for, maybe small chairs or she cut them into tiny little bathroom tiles?
In England the story of the tooth fairy used to be a little different. Upon losing a tooth the child must throw it into the fire to save looking for it upon death. Medieval legend also told that if witches threw peoples teeth or hair into a fire they got power over them. This tale may have been used to scare children into keeping or burning their own teeth.
The Vikings also had some sort of tooth phenomenon. Viking children used to string their lost teeth onto a necklace. Vikings also believed that having a child or a childs possession in battle would bring them good luck. I'm sure they would get done for child abuse or paedophilic actions if they were around now.
Anyway nowadays its just a little bit of fun. Not really any story behind it, spose its just like a celebration of the passing of childhood. Anyway i thought this information was quite interesting, but kind of pointless. Could help you in a pub quiz though...
Odin
Fairies are cool creatures, though I prefer the name pixies - sounds more puckish and mischievous. The word fairy finds its merry way into many usages - like:
Fairy money: which means "found money" - said to be placed by a good fairy at the spot where you picked it up.
And what do fairies look like? Well according to some bloke called Cromek, they wear a red cap, a mantle of green cloth inlaid with wild flowers, and green pantaloons buttoned with bobs of silk. They carry quivers of adder-slough, and bows made of the ribs of a man buried where tulips bloom. Their arrows are made of bog-reed tipped with white flints, and dipped in the dew of hemlock. They ride steeds whose hoofs would not "dash the froth from a tankard of a wizard's tipple".
Fairy money: which means "found money" - said to be placed by a good fairy at the spot where you picked it up.
And what do fairies look like? Well according to some bloke called Cromek, they wear a red cap, a mantle of green cloth inlaid with wild flowers, and green pantaloons buttoned with bobs of silk. They carry quivers of adder-slough, and bows made of the ribs of a man buried where tulips bloom. Their arrows are made of bog-reed tipped with white flints, and dipped in the dew of hemlock. They ride steeds whose hoofs would not "dash the froth from a tankard of a wizard's tipple".
Here is some pointless information about the history of the tooth fairy.
Today we all know, or should do, that the tooth fairy is our parents (and no i'm not calling anyones dad gay). Anyway when we lose a tooth we put it under our pillow and in the night it gets exchanged for a small sum of money, 20p for small tooth maybe and 50p for a biggun (unless you lot used to get fivers or twentys which i doubt). In the USA legend has it that the tooth fairy was a very small fairy who came along and took your teeth up to her tower, and used as she pleased. God only knows what she used them for, maybe small chairs or she cut them into tiny little bathroom tiles?
In England the story of the tooth fairy used to be a little different. Upon losing a tooth the child must throw it into the fire to save looking for it upon death. Medieval legend also told that if witches threw peoples teeth or hair into a fire they got power over them. This tale may have been used to scare children into keeping or burning their own teeth.
The Vikings also had some sort of tooth phenomenon. Viking children used to string their lost teeth onto a necklace. Vikings also believed that having a child or a childs possession in battle would bring them good luck. I'm sure they would get done for child abuse or paedophilic actions if they were around now.
Anyway nowadays its just a little bit of fun. Not really any story behind it, spose its just like a celebration of the passing of childhood. Anyway i thought this information was quite interesting, but kind of pointless. Could help you in a pub quiz though...
Odin
Today we all know, or should do, that the tooth fairy is our parents (and no i'm not calling anyones dad gay). Anyway when we lose a tooth we put it under our pillow and in the night it gets exchanged for a small sum of money, 20p for small tooth maybe and 50p for a biggun (unless you lot used to get fivers or twentys which i doubt). In the USA legend has it that the tooth fairy was a very small fairy who came along and took your teeth up to her tower, and used as she pleased. God only knows what she used them for, maybe small chairs or she cut them into tiny little bathroom tiles?
In England the story of the tooth fairy used to be a little different. Upon losing a tooth the child must throw it into the fire to save looking for it upon death. Medieval legend also told that if witches threw peoples teeth or hair into a fire they got power over them. This tale may have been used to scare children into keeping or burning their own teeth.
The Vikings also had some sort of tooth phenomenon. Viking children used to string their lost teeth onto a necklace. Vikings also believed that having a child or a childs possession in battle would bring them good luck. I'm sure they would get done for child abuse or paedophilic actions if they were around now.
Anyway nowadays its just a little bit of fun. Not really any story behind it, spose its just like a celebration of the passing of childhood. Anyway i thought this information was quite interesting, but kind of pointless. Could help you in a pub quiz though...
Odin