Once my brother swalled one of his loose teeth eating a rice cake. My mom looked in his mouth and said that the new one was coming in. I thought I could see something white at the back of his mouth, and until I lost a tooth I thought that over the course of days, new teeth would fly up from your stomach and land in the empty tooth-space.
A childhood belief about general
others believed things like this
- 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
- I used to believe that if I didn't brush my teeth at night, ants would crawl into my mouth and eat my teeth.Anon
- My mother told me that the tooth fairy would only come if I brushed my teeth.— Dale
- 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