Editing Tooth fairy (section)

==Origins==

During the [[Middle Ages]], other [[superstition]]s arose surrounding children's teeth. Children in [[England]] were instructed to burn their baby teeth, on pain of spending eternity searching for the baby teeth in the afterlife. Fear of witches was another reason to bury or burn teeth. In medieval Europe, it was thought that a witch could assume total power over someone if they were to obtain one of their teeth.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Underwood |first1=Tanya |title=Legends of the Tooth Fairy |url=https://recess.ufl.edu/culture/2005/legends-of-the-tooth-fairy/ |work=Recess! Media |publisher=University of Florida |date=23 August 2005 }}</ref>

Another modern incarnation of these traditions into an actual Tooth Fairy has been traced to a 1908 "Household Hints" item in the ''[[Chicago Daily Tribune]]'':

{{blockquote|Tooth Fairy.
Many a refractory child will allow a loose tooth to be removed if he knows about the Tooth Fairy.  If he takes his little tooth and puts it under the pillow when he goes to bed the Tooth Fairy will come in the night and take it away, and in its place will leave some little gift.  It is a nice plan for mothers to visit the 5-cent counter and lay in a supply of articles to be used on such occasions.<ref>{{Cite news
|author     = Lillian Brown
|date       = 27 September 1908
|title      = Tooth Fairy
|newspaper  = [[Chicago Daily Tribune]]
|url        = https://img0.newspapers.com/img/img?id=28787156&width=557&height=437&crop=2517_1050_2254_1801&rotation=0&brightness=0&contrast=0&invert=0&ts=1460115246&h=f6a60fdd1e30737112f8cf3ca2b30c64
|access-date = 13 March 2022
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 |archive-date=1 June 2016 |url-status=dead}}</ref>|author=Lillian Brown|title=Tooth Fairy|source=[[Chicago Daily Tribune]]}}