Tooth fairy
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European early childhood legendary figure, who visits children while they sleep, collects lost baby teeth, and recompenses with a small payment
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- Field of work
- collecting
- Image
- Child's Drawing of the Tooth Fairy.jpg
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- domain of saint or deity
- deciduous teeth
- iconographic symbol
- deciduous teeth
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- Tooth fairy
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- Tooth Fairy
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Encyclopedic overview
A coin depicting the Tooth Fairy The tooth fairy is a folkloric figure of early childhood in Western and Western-influenced cultures. The folklore states that when children lose one of their baby teeth, they should place it underneath their pillow or on their bedside table; the tooth fairy will visit while they sleep, replacing the lost tooth with a small payment.
Origins
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Tooth fairy” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.