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''For other uses, see [[Tooth Fairy (disambiguation)]].''
''For other uses, see [[Tooth Fairy (disambiguation)]].''


The '''Tooth Fairy''' is a [[myth]]ical character depicted as a [[fairy]] that gives a child money or gifts in exchange for a [[Deciduous teeth|baby tooth]] that has fallen out. Children typically place the tooth under their pillow at night while they sleep. The fairy is said to take the tooth from under the pillow and replace it with money.
The '''Tooth Fairy''' is a superhumON depicted as a [[fairy]] that gives a child money or gifts in exchange for gummers while they're sleeping. The Tooth Fairy sometimes beats the children while they're sleeping to knock their teeth out, and then inserts his wang into their mouthes.


Depending on how good the child's gumming skills are, he can give as little as 5 cents, to as much as $5. The Tooth Fairy makes the money he gives to the children, by selling his home-made moth balls to unwilling crack heads at gun point.
==Origins==
In early [[Europe]], it was a tradition to bury baby teeth that fell out.<ref>[http://www.thefairyhoax.com/toothfairyhistory.htm The History of the Tooth Fairy<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> Some believe that the Tooth Fairy evolved from the tooth mouse depicted in an 18th century [[French language]] [[fairy tale]]. In "La Bonne Petite Souris," a mouse changes into a fairy to help a good queen defeat an evil king by hiding under his pillow to torture him and knocking out all his teeth.


The Tooth Fairy is a 362 year old man, who thrives on harvesting childrens souls for shits and giggles. He lives in a tree fort in the forests of Brazil. He can fly with his bat wings as he is half bat, half man, half pig. Some call him the Batmanpig, which is a close species to Bearmanpig.
This combination of ancient international traditions has evolved into one that is distinct [[Anglo-Saxon]] and [[Latin America]]n cultures among others.


For a day job, the Tooth Fairy is Spider-Man. He enjoys long walks on the beach and bludgeoning babies with babies. Some of his interests also include, spitting, murdering people, architecture, humping dogs, homeless people and raping pies.
Tooth tradition is present in several [[western culture]]s under different names. For example in [[Spanish language|Spanish-speaking]] countries, this character is called ''Ratoncito [[Pérez]]'', a little [[mouse]] with a common surname, or just "ratón de los dientes" (Tooth Mouse). The "Ratoncito Pérez" character was created around 1894 by the priest [[Luis Coloma]] (1851–1915), a member of the [[Real Academia Española]] since 1908. The Crown asked Coloma to write a tale for the eight-year old [[Alfonso XIII]], as one of his teeth had fallen out.
A Ratón Pérez appeared in the tale of [[the Vain Little Mouse]].
The Ratoncito Pérez was used by [[Colgate]] marketing in Venezuela<ref name="Producto">[http://www.producto.com.ve/productor/gdental.html ¡Producto Registrado!: Agosto 1998: Centuria Dental].</ref> and Spain{{Fact|date=April 2008}}.


The Tooth Fairys real name is Michael Streissand. He has evolved from a rock into neither a man nor woman, because he is a cross breed of Barbra Streissand and Michael Jackson.
In [[Italy]] also the Tooth Fairy (''Fatina'') is often substituted by a small mouse (''topino''). In [[France]], this character is called ''La Petite Souris'' (« The Little Mouse »). From parts of Lowland [[Scotland]], comes a tradition similar to the fairy mouse: a white fairy rat which purchases the teeth with coins.


The Tooth Fairy's catch phrase is "Lend me some suga i AM YO NEIGHBA", and "ARGGGGGGGASHAHAHAHHAHA"
In some [[Asia]]n countries, such as [[India]], [[Korea]] and [[Vietnam]], when a child loses a tooth the usual custom is that he or she should throw it onto the roof if it came from the lower jaw, or into the space beneath the floor if it came from the upper jaw. While doing this, the child shouts a request for the tooth to be replaced with the tooth of a mouse. This tradition is based on the fact that the teeth of mice go on growing for their whole life, a characteristic of all rodents. In [[Japan]], a different variation calls for lost upper teeth to be thrown straight down to the ground and lower teeth straight up into the air; the idea is that incoming teeth will grow in straight.


He also enjoys throwing cats at old people and taxi cab drivers, as well as puking on lawn gnomes.
In parts of [[India]], young children offer their discarded baby tooth to the sun, sometimes wrapped in a tiny rag of cotton turf.


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Rosemary Wells, a former professor at the [[Northwestern University Dental School]], found evidence that supports the origin of different tooth fairies in the United States around [[1900]]. Folklorist Tad Tuleja suggests postwar affluence, a child-directed family culture, and media turned the myth into a custom. The Tooth Fairy, a three-act playlet for children by Esther Watkins Arnold, was published in 1927. On May 28, 1938, [[MGM]] released [[The Little Rascals]] short entitled, ''[[The Awful Tooth]]'', in which the gang agreed to pull their teeth out to make money from the tooth fairy.<ref>[http://www.4alfalfa.com/Commentary/tooth.html 4alfalfa.com: "The Awful Tooth" episode commentary]</ref> A reference in [[American literature]] appears in the 1949 book, "The Tooth Fairy" by Lee Rothgow. Dr. Wells created a Tooth Fairy Museum in 1993 in her Deerfield, Illinois museum. In a March 1961 [[Peanuts]] strip, new character Frieda asks if the prices are set by the [[American Dental Association|American Dental Society]]. The Tooth Fairy has appeared in several children's books, an adult book, and films, and the eponymous [[radio]] series.

A somewhat similar practice is found in [[Guatemala]] where [[Worry doll]]s are told a worry by children and placed under their pillow. During the night the doll is believed to worry so that the child can sleep, and sometimes to actually address or resolve the worry. As with the tooth fairy, parents may remove the doll at night to reinforce the child's belief in the myth.

==Literature==
A darker text is Graham Joyce's award-winning, ''The Tooth Fairy'', in which the fairy is a huge hoax created to make losing teeth not seem so bad.

In the [[Terry Pratchett]] book, ''[[Hogfather]]'', the Tooth Fairy has a complex operation, involving a group of human "Tooth Fairies" who collect the teeth, delivery men, guards and a castle that resembles a child's painting. The money given in payment for the teeth is generated through property rentals in the "real" world. The Tooth Fairy itself was the very first bogeyman, who became a children's myth as adults stopped believing in the power of the dark.

==In film and television==
Numerous films have been made on this theme, mostly horror. One example is ''[[Darkness Falls (2003 film)|Darkness Falls]]'', a film by [[Jonathan Liebesman]], in which an evil-spirit of a woman killed long ago assumes the form of the 'Tooth Fairy', and starts haunting. Another example is ''[[The Tooth Fairy]]'', directed by [[Chuck Bowman]]. In this film, a murderous woman kills children for their teeth.

More comedic versions on the theme include the [[1997]] TV movie ''[[Toothless (TV)|Toothless]]'', in which [[Kirstie Alley]] plays a dentist who reluctantly becomes a tooth fairy, and the to-be-released ''[[Tooth Fairy (2009 film)|Tooth Fairy]]'', starring [[The Rock]].

In [[1991 in film|1991]], [[Lacewood Productions]] produced a 24-minute children's [[animated short]], entitled ''[[Tooth Fairy, Where Are You?]],'' where an unofficial tooth fairy-in-training is discovered by a girl as her tooth is collected. The two became friends and are sad when they must part when the fairy becomes "official".

In the [[Nickleodeon]] Cartoon series ''The [[Fairly Oddparents]]'', the Tooth Fairy is married to [[Jorgen Von Strangle]].

In the ''[[South Park]]'' episode ''[[The Tooth Fairy Tats]]'' the boys attempt to collect teeth in order to make money from the tooth fairy.

In ''[[Hellboy II: The Golden Army]]'', tooth fairies are depicted as small, ravenous creatures with a taste for calcium. They will eat humans alive, starting with the teeth, to get to the bones.

In [[The Santa Clause 2]] and [[The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause]], the Tooth Fairy is part of the Council of Legendary Figures, along with [[Santa Claus]], the [[Easter Bunny]], [[Cupid]], [[Mother Nature]], [[Father Time]] and the [[Sandman]].

==External links==
* {{worldcat subject|name=Tooth Fairy|id=lccn-sh98-4496}}
* [http://www.straightdope.com/mailbag/mtoothfairy.html Straight Dope Staff Report: What's the origin of the tooth fairy?]
* [http://movies.filmax.com/perez/ "The Hairy Tooth Fairy" (Feature film)]
* [http://perez2lapelicula.com/ "The Hairy Tooth Fairy 2" (Feature film)]
* [http://www.facebakersfield.com/?p=5776/ "The Tooth Fairy: Cute or Creepy?" (Article)]

==References==

{{reflist}}
*The tooth, the whole tooth and nothing but the tooth, Rob Ryser, The Journal News, October 23, 2004.
*The Excruciating History of Dentistry, James Wynbrandt, St. Martin's Press, 1998. ISBN ISBN 0312263198
*[http://www.thesmilestones.com/toothfairyhistory.htm The History of the Tooth Fairy]
*[http://4alfalfa.com "The Awful Tooth" episode commentary]

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Revision as of 01:39, 30 April 2009

For other uses, see Tooth Fairy (disambiguation).

The Tooth Fairy is a superhumON depicted as a fairy that gives a child money or gifts in exchange for gummers while they're sleeping. The Tooth Fairy sometimes beats the children while they're sleeping to knock their teeth out, and then inserts his wang into their mouthes.

Depending on how good the child's gumming skills are, he can give as little as 5 cents, to as much as $5. The Tooth Fairy makes the money he gives to the children, by selling his home-made moth balls to unwilling crack heads at gun point.

The Tooth Fairy is a 362 year old man, who thrives on harvesting childrens souls for shits and giggles. He lives in a tree fort in the forests of Brazil. He can fly with his bat wings as he is half bat, half man, half pig. Some call him the Batmanpig, which is a close species to Bearmanpig.

For a day job, the Tooth Fairy is Spider-Man. He enjoys long walks on the beach and bludgeoning babies with babies. Some of his interests also include, spitting, murdering people, architecture, humping dogs, homeless people and raping pies.

The Tooth Fairys real name is Michael Streissand. He has evolved from a rock into neither a man nor woman, because he is a cross breed of Barbra Streissand and Michael Jackson.

The Tooth Fairy's catch phrase is "Lend me some suga i AM YO NEIGHBA", and "ARGGGGGGGASHAHAHAHHAHA"

He also enjoys throwing cats at old people and taxi cab drivers, as well as puking on lawn gnomes.

Somalian Pirates will steal your soul, pocket lint, and dental floss if you want to delete this.