Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny are both related to a religion, Christianity, while the tooth fairy has no significance to a religion in the United States of America. The tooth fairy has roots starting back in the 1990s (Killgrove). According to Kristina Killgrove, a bioarchaeologist, “we have to start in Europe for Tooth Fairy precursors. There is an old British custom, for example, of giving ‘fairy coins’ to servant girls while they slept” (Killgrove). An important difference between the tooth fairy myth and Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny myths is that the tooth fairy does not revolve around a holiday, or a specific date in time. The tooth fairy, in the eyes of a child, is a sporadic time of joy which comes whenever a tooth is