The Tooth Fairy
Spirits: Mythology, Legends, & Folklore
Multitude
4.8 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 16 November 2022
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
You checked under your pillow, and what’s that? A new Spirits episode? And it’s all about the Tooth Fairy?! We dig into the origins of this tradition, animals who collect teeth, and the ways we celebrate children’s milestones.
Content Warning: This episode contains conversations about or mentions of teeth, body horror, surgery, and animal/pet death.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm |
| 0:02.0 | M. |
| 0:05.0 | The Welcome the spirits podcast, a boozy dive into mythology, legends, and folklore. Every week we pour a drink and learn about a new story from around the world. I'm Amanda. And I'm Julia. And this episode 310, which I hear is all about the tooth fairy. It is, Amanda. |
| 0:44.0 | I'm going to start this off right away. Amanda, what were your childhood memories of the tooth fairy? |
| 0:49.0 | Julia, it's that the tooth fairy gave me quarters and I have friends who got 20s. What? Or fives at least. There was a big |
| 0:57.1 | distinction in my mind between people who got dollar bills and people who got change. And I remember |
| 1:02.3 | being old enough to go to school and be like, wait, you got, you got $10 from the tooth fairy that |
| 1:07.5 | you're spending on erasers shaped like fruit at the school store? |
| 1:11.4 | And I was like, what, what gives? |
| 1:13.8 | And I remember my parents being like, tooth fairy, we have a different tooth fairy. |
| 1:17.2 | I don't know what to tell you. |
| 1:17.7 | Yeah. |
| 1:18.3 | And it was an early representation of class, Julia, that I remember. |
| 1:22.3 | There you go. |
| 1:23.5 | I remember my parents definitely did this. |
| 1:26.8 | But I also don't remember the specifics of it. |
| 1:29.1 | Like, I don't remember how much I ever got from the tooth fairy or anything like that. |
| 1:32.8 | What I do remember is that when my dog was a puppy and he started losing his teeth, |
| 1:37.6 | I asked my mom if the tooth fairy would come and give him money, and my mom was like, girl, no, |
| 1:42.1 | why would that happen? |
| 1:44.0 | Dogs can't use money, four-year-old child? |
| 1:46.7 | Yeah, what did I know? |
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