Tooth Fairy is unemployed in the Land-of-Concrete(tm)

[Taro Toporific]

TokyoNow: Milk teeth no longer 'thrown on roof, under floor'
KYODO NEWS, June 17, 2005: TOKYO---- ''When your milk teeth fall out, throw the bottom teeth on the roof and the top teeth under the floor.'' This was what Japanese parents used to say to their children in bygone days, when concrete residences were a rarity and children were not...
...Children in Japan used to throw a fallen-out milk tooth on the roof or under the floor, shouting, ''Replace the devil's teeth with these'' or ''Bring me strong adult teeth.'' It is quite different to the Tooth Fairy treatment in some other countries....more...

[Taro Toporific]

[dimwit]

The reason teeth are bad is that they have the same quaint notions of fluoridation that environmental and/or conspiracy whackheads in the states have.

I introduced the tooth fairy to my son and since then all the kids in the neighborhood expect to be visited.

[Charles]

Apropos of this, I have an old tooth related video up on my server.

[Mels]

Apropos of this, I have an old tooth related video up on my server.

Thanks for that link Charles. I liked the video. I never knew this about this custom. I went with the American ToothFairy...loved getting the money under my pillow LOL