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.
A childhood belief about fairies
others believed things like this
- My mother told me that the tooth fairy would only come if I brushed my teeth.— Dale
- I used to think that the tooth fairy puts you in a deep sleep before stealing your tooth/teeth.Anon
- I used to believe that in the tooth fairy took all your teeth and built a tooth city for her to live in!Anon
- When I was very young, I assumed that false teeth were taken from dead people's teethAnon
- As a child I was taught that the tooth fairy would buy our teeth so she could add them to her crown.— Lola
- That the tooth fairy drove around in her green Volks Wagon Collecting teeth from all the children.— Wanda Trytten