August 22 isNational Tooth Fairy Day , and while plenty of Americans sure enough lionise the day by hire the fairy ( or fairy ) and her generous cash giving , the residuum of the man has their owntooth - centric traditionsin place to honour anyone or anything responsible for whisking their tooth off .
1. THE UNITED STATES AND BEYOND
In America ( and other primarily English - speaking countries ) , the tooth fay is typically employed in a comparatively simple dealing that sound bizarre when explain to the uninitiated : In society to help ease the injury of miss baby tooth , American kids are paid off for their toofers — lose a tooth , put it under your pillow , go to kip . At some point , a poove will arrive to exchange the tooth for some cash . In 2017 , the going rate was an average of$5.70 per tooth . See ? Losing teeth really is n’t so bad . ( you may read a story of the American Tooth Fairyhere . )
2. INDIA, CHINA, JAPAN, KOREA, AND VIETNAM
lay a tooth under a pillow sounds soft and sweet , but it also sounds boring . What about tossing those teeth around ? In some Asian countries , that ’s just what they do . Historically , kids who lose teeth from their broken jaw will throw their tooth onto their roof , while upper jaw teeth go on the floor or even under it ( the idea is the new tooth will be pull up towards the old tooth ) . That ’s not all , though , because as the tooth - losing kiddo tosses their teeth , they sometimes yell out a wish that the missing tooth be exchange by the tooth of a mouse . Mice ( and other rodents ) have tooth that continually mature , which fathom like a sassy postulation when one goes missing .
3. SPAIN
One of Spain ’s ( and other Latino refinement , admit Mexico , Peru , Chile , Argentina , and Colombia ) most darling myths centers on Ratoncito Perez , a.k.a . Raton Perez , a.k.a . Perez Mouse , a.k.a . El Raton de Los Dientes , who is just what he sounds like — a shiner who collects tooth . Like the tooth fairy , Perez puzzle the teeth only after they ’ve been lose and put under a kid ’s pillow . Perez will then replace it with a natural endowment — not always money — and leave alone it to be institute by a happy nestling in the dawn . Some Argentinean nestling switch it up by sticking their teeth in a glass of water before layer . When Perez demonstrate up — surely sear from all his teeth - collecting — he’ll salute up the water system , grab the tooth , and leave his gift in the empty spyglass . Want to learn more ? confab theRatoncito Pérez museumin Madrid .
4. IRAQ, JORDAN, AND EGYPT
Asiatic countries are n’t the only place you ’ll discover kids throwing their tooth up in the air — in some Middle Eastern res publica , kids are encouraged to toss their dentition up toward the sky . It ’s possible that the tossed teeth tradition dates all the path back to the thirteenth century .
4. SOUTH AFRICA
South Africans do n’t apply pillow as tooth holsters . Instead , their baby teethgo into slippers .
6. FRANCE
Mice are n’t just giving line of work around Spain ; the French also abandon their tooth to their very own mouse : “ La Bonne Petite Souris . ” As is so often the case , the tiny mouse will procure teeth left under pillows , put back them with either cash or sweets ( bad theme , Petite Souris ) .
7. MONGOLIA
Throughout Central Asia , it’straditionalto put the tooth into some avoirdupois and bung it to a dog ( do n’t try this at home ) . This is done because they require the grown up tooth to be as strong as the cad ’s teeth . If there ’s no dog ? Bury it by a Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree so that the new tooth has impregnable roots .
This chronicle in the beginning run in 2014 .
