Tooth Fairy Myths

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There was always an excitement in the air after losing a tooth as a child. Although losing a tooth was painful at times, there was something special about the whole experience: the tooth fairy. Something I looked forward to in my childhood was writing back and forth with the tooth fairy. I’d tell her my accomplishments, and she would write back and tell me how proud she was of all the things I was doing in life. A specific tooth fairy instance that I remember from my childhood was when my dog died. After this happened, I lost a tooth, and that meant the tooth fairy was on her way. She reminded me of all of the good things that were to come, and that this was just a bump in the road of all of the happy things in life. However, as I got older, I started to realize that the tooth fairy was a fictional character, and my mom was really the one who was writing the tooth fairy notes. Even though the magic of the tooth fairy wore off, I realized that this experience yielded something that I can relate to as an adult. …show more content…
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
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