Context: JA is a 20-year-old student from Orinda, California. She recalled this story in an interview. Text: JA: I don’t remember when I first learned of it… but the tooth fairy comes to your house the night after you lose a tooth when you’re a kid. You put your baby tooth under your pillow at… Continue Reading »
Informant: So. Tooth Fairy. I, actually, was always kinda questioning the Tooth Fairy. So when I was – I think it was probably around the third grade or so, when you lose your molars – I took my last molar, and – for us, instead of under the pillow, we put it in a glass… Continue Reading »
Piece: “I remember el Raton Perez, basically it’s the Argentinian equivalent of the tooth fairy. It’s basically a fucking sewer rat, I’m just saying sewer rat out of spite, but that was the base of it, you put your tooth under your pillow and he takes it and leaves you money.” Background information: The informant is a… Continue Reading »
Informant: “When [my children] were growing up and their teeth fell out, we would tell them to put the tooth under their pillow, and during the night the tooth fairy would come and leave a dollar under their pillow and take the tooth.” Collector: Where did you first hear about the tooth fairy? Informant: “Well,… Continue Reading »
I never got dollars from the tooth fairy- I always got coins special coins though, like silver dollars. It was always a surprise to see what coin I would get they were always coins that are never used though, so I had a box that I saved them in As I got older, I learned… Continue Reading »