Coins seem to be the Tooth Fairy’s choice of currency, presumably as they can be slid under a pillow with little disturbance.Īccording to the CDA Journal, the Tooth Fairy in the US leaves an average of $3.70 (£2.80) per tooth. What does she give in exchange for a tooth? If a child is stirring while the Tooth Fairy is near, she merely sprinkles a pinch of fairy dust from her gold silk purse over them to send them back to sleep. Immaculately dressed in a shimmering white gown and silk slippers, and with shining hair as if laced with glitter, she is the envy of other fairies and gives off a golden glow when she flies. The Tooth Fairy is known as one of the smallest and prettiest fairies in existence. Her elf and pixie friends then use the teeth to make jewellery and sell them to fairies who travel from near and far to the castle to buy them. What happens to all the teeth she collects?Īll the teeth the Tooth Fairy collects are gathered in a vast storeroom in the castle. At dusk, before setting off to make her rounds, the Tooth Fairy checks the log book and makes a note of who she’s going to visit that night. To keep track of all the wobbly teeth, little sprites travel the world during the day, jotting down the names of children with loose teeth in their log books. She stores them in what she calls ‘The Tooth Library’, that’s found deep inside her castle. Claus, the Tooth Fairy knows all the names of all the children in the world. How does the Tooth Fairy know who has lost their teeth?
With a little help from the book, Fairies: A Magical Guide to the Enchanted Realm, we ask a few questions to try to understand who the Tooth Fairy is and how her business works. All we know is she simply slips into the room of a sleeping child, swaps their baby teeth for a small payment of some kind, and flies back off into the night. Thought to have been around at least a century, the Tooth Fairy is a mysterious little being, known throughout the Western world for her daring nocturnal antics.Īn expert at remaining hidden, not much is known about her. So what do you do when they come armed with questions about everything from where she lives to how she fits underneath the pillow? Here we run down five common queries to help you keep the myth alive. The tooth fairy exists – as far as our kids are concerned. 5 Mysteries About The Tooth Fairy Unravelled
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