Talk:Tooth fairy

Related Myths

This article says "in some Asian countries, such as China ...." etc, people throw the baby teeth up into the air or down onto the ground. I live in Nanxun and asked every single person I know if they ever heard of this - people here, people in Beijing, Shanghai, Haerbin, Chengdu, and Shenzhen.

Not a single one had ever heard that.

So I'm not going to remove it but Real Life™ Experience says this statement is hogwash. 203.160.69.56 (talk) 13:44, 10 December 2020 (UTC)

There is no source given for the claim in the article. I'm inclined to think we should just delete it. John M Baker (talk) 18:13, 10 December 2020 (UTC)

I've removed the paragraph. Of course if anyone can find a source, we can re-add material based on it. —Granger (talk · contribs) 19:16, 10 December 2020 (UTC)

amount; program

It would be of interest to have (documented) data on how much the TF leaves. In the fifties, I got a dime (US); a recent NPR program says the rate is about $6 now (US).

On 4 March, NPR's Weekend Edition devoted a few minutes to the TF. 2600:6C67:1C00:5F7E:1C0B:C22A:E490:C0DB (talk) 15:22, 4 March 2023 (UTC)

@2600:6c67:1c00:5f7e:1c0b:c22a:e490:c0db: Thanks for this suggestion. I've added some information to the article about how the reward is affected by inflation. —Mx. Granger (talk · contribs) 16:28, 4 March 2023 (UTC)

Casing

Almost every mention in article prose is cased like a proper name ("Tooth Fairy"), yet the article is at title "Tooth fairy". I have no motivation to perform a source analysis, but this ngram seems to indicate it would be inconclusive. Can someone either move the page to the Title Case title or sentence case the article prose? Folly Mox (talk) 03:55, 11 December 2023 (UTC)

Unreferenced content

I'm moving almost the entire section "In popular culture" here so that what remains is referenced.

Tales of the Tooth Fairies is a British children's television programme first aired in 1993.

In the 2010 film Tooth Fairy, Dwayne Johnson plays as the titular character. The 2012 sequel stars Larry the Cable Guy.

The 2003 horror film, Darkness Falls, features a vengeful spirit known as the "Tooth Fairy". A 2006 horror film, The Tooth Fairy, also features an evil Tooth Fairy.

A killer nicknamed "The Tooth Fairy" (because of his habit of leaving bite marks on his victims) is featured in "Red Dragon", part of the Hannibal Lecter franchise by Thomas Harris. He appears in the 1981 novel and the 1986 and 2002 film adaptations.

William Joyce's book series The Guardians of Childhood features Toothiana, a half-human tooth fairy resembling a Kinnari operating out of South Asia. She and a vast legion of mini fairies (depicted in the books as being an ability to split herself into smaller copies, while the film has them as separate entities) collect children's teeth to safeguard the childhood memories held within, with the film also including a brief appearance by the Tooth Mouse. In its 2012 film adaptation Rise of the Guardians, she is voiced by Isla Fisher.

In episode 2 of The Irregulars, a 2021 series on Netflix, the tooth fairy myth is an integral part of the plot.

In The Legend of Toof, by P.S. Featherston, a story originally told in 2006 and published in 2021 by TF Press, we learn of the dangerous adventures of a small woodland sprite named Toof. Toof is the original tooth fairy born with the ability to know when a child has lost a tooth and how to find them. The story identifies why fairies need a child's tooth, how it keeps them safe from gremlins, and why children need to help them in this endeavor. In The Legend of Toof we meet all of the original Tooth Fairies, two human children that help him defeat the hidden world's most despicable villains: Colsore, Deekay, and Plaak, their army of Drolls, and the original Tooth Mouse of Spain, Ratoncito Pérez and learn his story. Because of Toof, we discover how fairies can fly at the speed of light, the importance of their friendship with children, where they get the unique coins they leave as gifts, and much more as it relates to Tooth Fairy lore.

In the video game Reverse: 1999, a playable character named Tooth Fairy serves as a dentist and medical doctor at the St. Pavlov Foundation. In addition to her medical knowledge and hobby of collecting various teeth, she carries literal glowing tooth fairies in a jar, and can heal other arcanists by feeding parts or all of a tooth fairy to them.

Feel free to put it back when you have a reliable source for the content. Schwede66 23:09, 29 May 2024 (UTC)