Scary Tooth Fairy Urban Legends Hello and welcome back to the Most Amazing
Channel on the internet.
I am your host, Rebecca Felgate and today I am talking about the Top 10 Scary Tooth
Fairy Urban Legends….
I am actually pretty stressed about hosting this video because…a little dental urban
legend of my own – I feel like every time I host a video about teeth, something bad
happens to mine!
Please tooth goods…please ms tooth fairy!
Keep them safe this time!
Before we jump into this video, why don’t you guys let me know if you like going to
the dentist, or if you have any dental horror stories… honestly living in Canada is a
dental horror story….it is so expensive!
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10 - Burn Them Good old Middle Ages Europe…so up for burning
stuff!
So it seems that back in Ye Olde times Europeans believed that a witch could curse someone
if they got a hold of their tooth.
Teeth, therefore, were pretty important and couldn’t be left lying around.
To stop a witch cursing you – teeth were either swallowed or buried, but these still
held some risk, so a lot of teeth were burned.
There was also a belief that feeding a baby tooth to a rodent would encourage the development
of strong adult teeth.
It was a weird time!
9 - The Afterlife In England, a bit like in central Europe,
baby teeth were burned.
This was less out of a fear of witches, but more out of a fear of eternal damnation….which
is never ideal!
It seems that the English were convinced that if baby teeth weren’t burned – when people
died they would spend their entire afterlife searching for them – which sounds horrifying
but like… maybe we will worry about that when we’re dead?
Oh…I forgot to mention – it also means that your adult life would be cursed and filled
with hardship.
8 - The Witch of the Green Teeth Pond This legend comes from good old England in
the county of Lancashire!
Passed on by word of mouth, there is said to be a witch called Jenny Greeteeth who has…
you guessed it – green teeth.
Not only that, the witch is said to hide in skum filled ponds and captured children with
bad, rotting teeth in order to make them her companions.
Couldn’t have a friend with pearly whites, could you?
That would just make her jealous!
It is thought the dental connection came from the pond scum which I guess is kind of plaquey?
I guess this is another legend to encourage kids to clean their teeth.
7 - The Little Mouse In 17th Century France – a place I would
most like to time travel to despite the upheaval, the tooth fairy legends seem to begin with
a mouse – La Bonne Petite Souris – which means the good little mouse.
The Good Little Mouse is a French Fairytale about a mouse who helps a good queen defeat
an evil king.
Cheers mouse!
But…wait… a nice mouse that helps a queen isn’t scary?
Is it?
WELL… how did the mouse help, you may wonder?
He crawled under the kings pillow and waited until he was sleeping then knocked out his
teeth one by one until all that was left were gums.
That is pretty sinister….right?
No seriously though!!
6 - The Changelings In old Irish folklore a lot of people were
very scared of changelings – changelings are children that have been stolen away by
fairies and demons and swapped with one of their own.
Why would a fairy steal a human child?
Well because human children are pretty and docile in comparison.
Many Irish people believed that old, dying fairies would be swapped with babies.
How would parents know if they had a changeling – well the concept was developed partly
as an explaination In some Irish cultures, placing a tooth near the bed of a child would
protect them from harm and of course protect them from being stolen and swapped with a
changeling.
5 - The Control of the Teeth Bearers I suppose this is somewhat related to the
witch issue – while some believed that witches may take teeth and use them to curse people,
others believed that if teeth weren’t hidden or destroyed then a person could control another
if they had their teeth.
This idea was later explored in Terry Prachet’s Discworld series as the Tooth Fairy’s collection
of teeth is seized ,allowing Mr Teatime – a ruthless schemer, to size control over everyone
who has a tooth in the tooth fairies castle.
It is also worth mentioning – to Pratchet, the tooth fairy was more like a bogeyman – or
collection of boogey men – who collected teeth in order to protect them from mind control
magic.
4 - Gain a Baby, Lose a Tooth So the saying goes!
It seems babies and teeth are weirdly linked in folklore!
It is an old superstition that women pay the price for a child by losing a tooth…which
is kind of worrying, right?
Back when this legend originated, it was said that the tooth loss was some can of natural
balance in order to keep mother nature…who in this case I guess we could consider the
tooth fairy, happy.
This all came about when many pregnant women noticed they were losing teeth or suffering
dental issues.
There is some actual science behind this urban legend, though!
It seems that pregnancy interferes with calcium absorption and further to that a lot of women
crave sweet or acidic food while they are carrying.
In modern days, pregnant women are less likely to visit the dentist.
So…maybe it is less the tooth fairy collecting payment for a blessing…than it is variable
dental hygiene.
Tooth superstition up next!
3 - Bite the Wood In Filipino culture, spirits visit people
in their sleep and people often think that their dreams are visions and warnings.
It is thought that if a person dreams that their teeth are falling out they are being
warned.
I am pretty interested right now as I CONSTANTLY have teeth falling out dreams.
Like….constantly.
I thought it was an anxiety dream but it turns out, in Filipino culture, anyway, that someone
around you will die soon.
In order to counteract this, you must appease spirits by biting a piece of wood.
2 - 1000 teeth in a wall…
I am sorry but this is terrifying.
WHY are there.
Check out this image and tell me what you would do if you were working construction
and found this horrible haul.
As workers were taking down a wall on the second floor of the Converse Building in downtown
Valdosta, Georgia.
After an initial scare, some research was done on the building and it was discovered
that the building used to be home to a dentist.
It seems that the dentist at the time, Dr Youmans, used to place extracted teeth inside
of a wall instead of disposing of them properly.
These days this would be a biohazard risk as rotten teeth are considered to contain
infectious material.
So…why were they in the wall?
Possibly because he was a superstitious man and burying teeth in walls was an old religious
tradition.
OH I am all about a tooth troll!
Meet Hammaspeikko at number 1 So Hammaspeikko is a legend from Finland about
a troll that rots teeth.
The urban legend surfaced in 1949 when a children’s book was written by Thorbjorn Egner about
dental health.
It seems that eating candy and junk food lures in tooth trolls, the Hammaspeikko, who in
turn drill holes into teeth where they will stay unless they are scared away.
How do you scare a candy loving tooth troll?
With a tooth brush, that is how!
While it seems that the urban legend of Hammaspeikko is used to scare young children today, historically
in old Finnish religion it was believed that small malevolent spirits caused tooth ache.
It is a pretty terrifying visual isn’t it ….tiny trolls living in your teeth…hammering
at them causing them to rot!
That was the Top 10 Scary Tooth Fairy Urban Legends, which scared you the most?
Urrrgh I feel like I am so having teeth dreams tonight….
Please no!
Comments from scary dentist stories part 2 Kerry Ann --- who I notice commenting on loads
of our videos said: Ohhh jeeez.
I hate the dentist after a botched impacted wisdom tooth job.
This has made me even more fearful of the dreaded dentist....!!
Lol love this channel.?
Demonpniff wrote: Only Rebecca Felgate can make ugly, scary dentist stories sound cheery.
And only Ms. Felgate would respond to a dentist taking revenge on her ex by removing all his
teeth with "That is not acceptable."
Love your videos, and your voice, Ms. Felgate!?
Terry Kimball wrote: To answer your question about number 10, yes cyanide teeth are real?
– WHAT!
Finally we had one of our channel members Laura Anderson leave a comment – thanks
Laura – she said: I never had any scary dentist experiences please do scary Washington
state urban legends?