I like Pratchett’s take. The Tooth Fairy of the Discworld takes the baby teeth and hides them in his domain because pieces of a person can be used for sympathetic magic, like cursing someone, and he wants to protect the kids from that.
Just say they’re banned from graveyards, because they pulled that shit all the time without burying them again. You need to stay consistent and plausible with those lies. 😉
I like this response, but now I’m wondering what the beaver question was…
…question about beavers?
Edit: just scrolled and seen your other post lol
Something, something, fresh teeth.
Fully unironically. “Brush your teeth or the Fairy won’t pay top dollar for them”
Honestly, this is a golden teachable moment in critical thinking. Jr here is starting to ponder the implausibility of a myth. Encourage more thought, guide away from magical thinking, answer their questions honestly, and reward them for arriving at better answers. Then follow up with a big reward as they’ll probably feel a tad disillusioned when it’s all over.
Why do you think there’s dirt on your window sill after the tooth fairy visits?
How do people think tooth fairy makes money?
By collecting gold tooths of the dead of course.War criminal tooth fairies did that, in the second world war, for gold teeth.
This is why we put bodies in boxes!
The people are only dead because they refused to keep giving the Tooth Fairy their teeth, so (s)he killed them but will honor their wish in death.
They probably have to be reasonably fresh
My kid and I had a conversation about this. I said it was weird a little fairy was flying around with a huge sack of kids teeth, like wtf was she doing with them? Pretty disgusting. We don’t trust the tooth fairy.
The tooth fairy can go where it wants, and can see in the dark. Why would it need to dig them up?
