My little girl, who is 5 years old, wakes up in the morning with messy, tangled hair (as does everyone) but she has the belief that the reason for this is that the Fairies have been playing in her hair at night, one morning she asked me to *have words with the Fairies* to stop tangling her hair!

Chelle Fox

When I was younger, I had minor health problems that my family was unaware of until later. Because of these, I could alway see these funny things that happened from not enough oxygen getting to my brain. Well, I would always stand up in class and say, "There they are, get them!!" and try to catch these "fuzzy things." Of course, I was the only one who could see them and couldn't figure out why the teacher kept having conferences with my parents.

Heh-heh

I used to reflect the sun off my watch to create little circles of light on the wall and tell my younger brother they were fairies and if he caught one he would be able to fly like Peter Pan! He used to run around for ages trying to catch one but when the sun went in they disappeared!

Tanya, Essex

One time I stayed up late trying to force my loose tooth to come out. I'll spare you the grisly details, but I used various bathroom implements to pull, pry and prod until finally the tooth came out. Because I wasn't supposed to be up so late I didn't tell my parents about the tooth coming out (they probably would have also known it wasn't loose enough), but I put the tooth under my pillow. The next morning when the tooth was still there with no money or Trident gum, I was convinced that the Tooth Fairy knew I had cheated by pulling the tooth out before it was ready.

short in the tooth

i remember once my 4 year old brother lost a tooth, my mum told him to put his tooth under the pillow for the tooth fairy. He said to my mum 'oh mum make sure you let the tooth fairy know i want paper money' When he woke up the next morning with $5 i realised that you had to request the amount you wanted from the tooth fairy. I felt so stupid because i was probably half way through my baby teeth and had missed out on all this potential cash!

Sarah. F

First I loved the fairy because I received money in return for a tooth. One year though, I forgot to put my tooth under my pillow, and the next morning I just happened to find a note saying, "Give me tooth by tonight!". I ran to my mom and told her that the tooth fairy is mean because she forces kids to sell their body parts in exchange for money.

Anon

I use to believe that the things rattling around in spray paint cans were baby teeth that the tooth fairy sold to the paint company, that's how she got her money

Anon

When I was little my mum and dad told us kids that the tooth fairy took our teeth from under our pillows to make false teeth for our grandad.

Lisa-Dionne

Every time I lost a tooth when I was little, I wrote a letter to the tooth fairy. Acctually it was more of a questionarre, with what I thought were REALLY difficult questions. So every tooth-fairy night my poor mother would have to reach under my pillow, take my well protected tooth, and the note, and answer the questions. Difficult as my mother was not very imaginative, and most of the questions were things like: "Where do you live?" "What do you do with the teeth?" and (my personal favorite) "How come some of my friends get less money than me? Is it 'cos my teeth are worth more in the market?"

Raven Warrior

I used to believe that there was a toenail fairy. When I was about 5 someting happened to my big toenail to make it slowly fall off. When it finally completely seperated from my toe, i told my mother, who told me to put it under my pillow and the toenail fairy would come. Sure enough, the next morning there was a crisp dollar bill under my pillow.
I always bragged to everyone how i got money from the toenail fairy and no one knew what i was talking about.
In case you were wondering, my toenail did grow back fully.

Jessica

I used to believe that my aunt had fairies living at teh bottom of her garden. we used to see their silhouettes flying about and once I even saw one riding a horse. Many years later I found out the it was all created by a projector in the shed.

Anon

When I was 2 or 3, I would get fever blisters ALL the time. My brother, about 9 or 10 at that time, told me that there was a "scab fairy" and if I picked the scabs off of my fever blisters and put them under my pillow, the scab fairy would bring my a penny. I totally believed him, and that night, I put my scab under my pillow. I was so disappointed in the morning when I woke up and there was no penny. I thought that maybe the scab had come out from under my pillow, so the scab fairy didn't see it when she looked. I told my brother about it, he started laughing, and I then realized that there was no scab fairy.

Wish Upon A Scab

I got a dollar from the "tooth fairy" for each tooth under my pillow. Well apparently I decided at one point that this wasn't enough money and I left a note along with my tooth asking for something along the lines of ten bucks from the fairy. Well my mom, sly as she is only left me like ten cents that time....A lesson in greed I suppose but I just could not believe I got ripped off by the tooth fairy!

Bianca

I had a beautiful little pillow with a pocket on the front and a note to the tooth fairy that I loved, but it always ended up under my moms pillow becuase I was adamant the tooth fairy would crawl in my ear and pull my brains out instead of taking my tooth. i still get queasy at the thought of it today.

S.Sharp

Me and my sister shared a room when I was little, and we believed in the tooth fairy. We used to think up what our own personal tooth fairies looked like, mine resembeled Janet Jackson, my sister's resembeled Queen Amidala.

Fontana

I used to believe that when i didn't get money from the toothfairy she was in Hawaii

Anon

When I was little, I lived near the Mississippi River, and we took ferry boats to cross the river and go into town. My grandfather from Texas used to tell us stories about Yip Yip the dog and a "ferry" that lived in a stump. If my grandfather said it, it was true for me. I never questioned this, I just imagined a tiny ferry boat stuck in the stump. My grandfather died when I was 6, so I never heard the stories after that.

It was many years later I realized it was a "fairy" that lived in the stump!!

Anon

For about 3-4 years, I believed that fairies lived in the air vent of my room. Worse yet, I truly believed that I was the fairy Queen and that my human parents were just holding me until I reached the age I could control my fairy kingdom (queendom?) by myself. When I came of age, I would be escorted back and shrunken down to fairy size to rule over my country of Fairies.

Tenten

When I used to get floaters (those things in your eyes that float around), I thought that they were fairies and since nobody else could see them, I felt really special. Then in health class, 7th grade, that specialness I had felt was crushed.

Jessy

I was told that when the tooth fairy takes your fallen-out tooth, she will add that tooth to her collection and use many teeth that have fallen out of children to make sets false teeth for elderly people.

Anon