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Description: This website indicates the origin of the tooth fairy and how every country, religion and culture has their own interpretation of it. Tooth fairies are a myth that is used for kids. the stereotype is that the Tooth-fairy is a l old lady who looks like a fairy.
Red Flag: I would say this is a form of emotional connection as the child uses their emotions to believe in the tooth fairy although it sounds ridiculous for a fairy going around giving money in return for the child tooth. Flaws: Some flaws I have seen is that there is absolutely no need for tooth fairies so putting the image of one in a child life is so unnecessary.

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The tooth fairy is an iconic symbol of childhood, the same way we fondly remember Santa Clause or the Easter Bunny, we look back on the Tooth Fairy with fond memories. Unlike the other two mythological heroes of modern folklore, the Tooth Fairy exists across religion and culture in many anglo-based societies. But where did this sprightly sprite originate, and just how long have we believed in her magic? 123 Dentist decided to dig into the history of the Tooth Fairy and provide you with some much needed answers. With any luck, we'll learn something together and satisfy our fascination with folklore at the same time!

Ancient Tooth Related Myths

The Tooth Fairy as we know it is a relatively recent creation, like other myths, evolved over time. There are traditions, legends and myths dating back millennia with regards to loosing your baby teeth.

Early norse and European traditions suggest that when a child lost a baby tooth, it was buried to spare the child from hardships in the next life. A tradition of the tand-fe or tooth fee originated in Europe for a child's first tooth, and vikings used children's teeth and other items from their children to bring them good luck in battle.

There's also the more general tradition of a good fairy in Europe that was birthed out of fairy tales and popular literature in more recent times. Ultimately the most popular version of a 'tooth deity' is the image of a mouse, who would enter children's rooms and remove baby teeth. This tradition is prominent in Russia, Spain and many asian countries like China.

Tooth Fairy Traditions Around The World

More recently, when the 6th tooth fell out, the child was rewarded with a gift in many northern European countries. In France, a mouse or rabbit dating to the 17th century mentioned a La Petite Souris. In Latin countries the most well known character is Ratoncito Perez. Perez has become a pop symbol in his own right, appearing in cartoons and he even has a museum dedicated to him in Madrid, Spain. Perez is used to market dental products to children much the way the tooth fairy is in Canada or the US.

The reason for the mouse being synonymous with so many culture's tooth fairy tradition is the fact that rodents continue to grow their teeth their entire lives. Anthropologists consider a type of 'sympathetic magic' a way for believers to transfer good luck or traits to the child who lost the tooth.

In other cultures, the legend varies to include beavers, cats, dogs or even squirrels. Other traditions of the tooth fairy include rituals dating back thousands of years in almost every culture. Traditions like:
(1) thrown into the sun.
(2) thrown into the fire.
(3) thrown backwards between the legs.
(4) thrown onto or over the roof of a dwelling.
(5) placed in a mouse hole.
(6) buried in the ground.
(7) hidden out of site of animals.
(8) put inside a tree or on the wall.
(9) swallowed by mother, the child or a pet.
The Many Faces Of The Tooth Fairy

Unlike the counterparts of Santa Claus or The Easter Bunny, which have been branded in large part by companies like Coca Cola and Cadbury, the Tooth Fairy has not been associated with one specific look. The most common rendition was inspired by other fairies in pop culture, but the tooth fairy has appeared in countless shapes and sizes, from young to old, human to sprite, even animals and birds have inspired the look of the fairy.

The All-American Tooth Fairy

The tooth fairy as we know her was inspired by the legend of the mouse mentioned earlier and the good fairy myth. In 1927 or so, a book popularized what would consider to be the modern tooth fairy. The legend was obscure for a while, but with the popularity of Walt Disney's fairy characters, the tooth fairy gained popularity and quickly became a presence in most households.

A recent survey by Visa found that the average child in the United States receives $3.70 per tooth, which is considerably more than what we used to get as children. Some parents offer more money for bigger teeth or for the first or last tooth, also inspired by European tradition.

Tooth Fairy In Popular Culture

To this day, the tooth fairy legend has appeared in hundreds of plays, books, cartoons and feature films. Some of these films are more or less what you'd expect from a female fairy character. The Tooth Fairy has featured in other lore about fairies, too. In recent films, the Tooth Fairy appeared in:

Rise of the Guardians
An almost superhero version of mythological characters have to join together to save the world and the Tooth Fairy is a key part of the group, presented as likeable, and almost bird like. The film is well animated, but a bit silly, even for a kids film.

The Tooth Fairy
If you could choose the least tooth fairy like actor in Hollywood today, at the top of the list you'd find Nicholas Cage or The Rock. In this modern take on the legend, a pro-sports star becomes the tooth fairy and has to get in touch with his sensitive side. Best avoid it unless you have small children.

Darkness Falls
One of the most recent takes on the Tooth Fairy myth re-imagined it for the horror genre and melded it with other folklore. If you like a good scare and a classic good vs. evil horror romp, check it out, but leave the kids watching something else.

Toothless
A lot of people don't remember Toothless, Kristie Alley's take on a dentist who becomes the next tooth fairy. The film was born out of the success of Tim Allen's Santa Clause movie, another connection for the two closely related characters. It's hard to find but it was fun for a family audience.

Ultimately, the reason the tooth fairy legend continues to grow and evolve across cultures is that it provides a level of comfort to children. As you grow, your body undergoes many changes, but arguably the first and most traumatic for children is the loss of a tooth or two. The tooth fairy and the mouse legends like Parez help bring comfort and excitement to a traumatic experience.

Today dentists use the tooth fairy to encourage dental health, even encouraging parents to propagate the legend with the notion that a tooth that is cleaner receives a larger reward. This kind of encouragement and the notion of a tooth fairy makes dental work easier for children, and that's a very good thing!

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A Brief History Of The Tooth Fairy - 123Dentist

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The tooth fairy is an iconic symbol of childhood, the same way we fondly remember Santa Clause or the Easter Bunny, we look back on the Tooth Fairy with fond memories. Unlike the other two mythological heroes of modern folklore, the Tooth Fairy exists across religion and culture in many anglo-based societies.

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Description: As the website shows how and where Vampires have come to the public eye. A vampire is a human corpse that have returned from the grave to harm the living according to the website. They suck the blood out of the people and they sometimes turn the victim in to a vampire. They are known to come at night and sleep during the day. Some even say they turn in to bats when they choose to. My beliefs are that Vampires are just a myth from centuries. I do believe that some people in this generation truly believe they are vampires so they suck on their own blood.
Red Flag: One Red Flag would be Unexplained as we really don't know when and where this ideology of vampires have come from and they are just a mystery as the existence of these beings are just a tale.
Flaws: A flaw that i have seen is about the movies they have created about vampires as that alone shows how fake vampires are as they are portrayed to be a blood thirsty monster.

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Vampires are a perennial favorite around Halloween, but they can be found year-round in movies and on television, in books and on blogs. The public's thirst for vampires seems as endless as vampires' thirst for blood. Modern writers of vampire fiction, including Stephenie Meyer, Anne Rice, Stephen King and countless others, have a rich vein of vampire lore to draw from. But where did the vampires come from?

Bela Lugosi's portrayal of Dracula has influenced how many people picture vampires.

The most famous vampire is, of course, Bram Stoker's Dracula, though those looking for a historical "real" Dracula often cite Romanian prince Vlad Tepes (1431-1476), after whom Stoker is said to have modeled some aspects of his Dracula character. The characterization of Tepes as a vampire, however, is a distinctly Western one; in Romania, he is viewed not as a blood-drinking sadist but as a national hero who defended his empire from the Ottoman Turks.

The vampires most people are familiar with (such as Dracula) are revenants - human corpses that are said to return from the grave to harm the living; these vampires have Slavic origins only a few hundred years old. But other, older, versions of the vampire were not thought to be human at all but instead supernatural, possibly demonic, entities that did not take human form.

Matthew Beresford, author of " From Demons to Dracula: The Creation of the Modern Vampire Myth" (Reaktion, 2008), notes, "There are clear foundations for the vampire in the ancient world, and it is impossible to prove when the myth first arose. There are suggestions that the vampire was born out of sorcery in ancient Egypt, a demon summoned into this world from some other." There are many variations of vampires from around the world. There are Asian vampires, such as the Chinese jiangshi (pronounced chong-shee), evil spirits that attack people and drain their life energy; the blood-drinking Wrathful Deities that appear in the "Tibetan Book of the Dead," and many others.

While most people can name several elements of vampire lore, there are no firmly established characteristics. Some vampires are said to be able to turn into bats or wolves; others can't. Some are said not to cast a reflection, but others do. Holy water and sunlight are said to repel or kill some vampires, but not others. The one universal characteristic is the draining of a vital bodily fluid, typically blood. One of the reasons that vampires make such successful literary figures is that they have a rich and varied history and folklore. Writers can play with the "rules" while adding, subtracting or changing them to fit whatever story they have in mind.

Finding a vampire is not always easy: according to one Romanian legend you'll need a 7-year-old boy and a white horse. The boy should be dressed in white, placed upon the horse, and the pair set loose in a graveyard at midday. Watch the horse wander around, and whichever grave is nearest the horse when it finally stops is a vampire's grave - or it might just have something edible nearby; take your pick.

Interest and belief in revenants surged in the Middle Ages in Europe. Though in most modern stories the classic way to become a vampire is to be bitten by one, that is a relatively new twist. In his book " Vampires, Burial, and Death: Folklore and Reality" (Yale, 2008), folklorist Paul Barber noted that centuries ago, "Often potential revenants can be identified at birth, usually by some abnormality, some defect, as when a child is born with teeth. Similarly suspicious are children born with an extra nipple (in Romania, for example); with a lack of cartilage in the nose, or a split lower lip (in Russia) ... When a child is born with a red caul, or amniotic membrane, covering its head, this was regarded throughout much of Europe as presumptive evidence that it is destined to return from the dead." Such minor deformities were looked upon as evil omens at the time.

The belief in vampires stems from superstition and mistaken assumptions about postmortem decay. The first recorded accounts of vampires follow a consistent pattern: Some unexplained misfortune would befall a person, family or town - perhaps a drought dried up crops, or an infectious disease struck. Before science could explain weather patterns and germ theory, any bad event for which there was not an obvious cause might be blamed on a vampire. Vampires were one easy answer to the age-old question of why bad things happen to good people.

Villagers combined their belief that something had cursed them with fear of the dead, and concluded that perhaps the recently deceased might be responsible, having come back from the graves with evil intent. Graves were unearthed, and surprised villagers often mistook ordinary decomposition processes for supernatural phenomenon. For example, though laypeople might assume that a body would decompose immediately, if the coffin is well sealed and buried in winter, putrefaction might be delayed by weeks or months; intestinal decomposition creates bloating which can force blood up into the mouth, making it look like a dead body has recently sucked blood. These processes are well understood by modern doctors and morticians, but in medieval Europe were taken as unmistakable signs that vampires were real and existed among them.

A skeleton buried in the cemetery of Vecchiano in Pisa showing a similar condition to the purported "Venetian vampire."

Credit: Antonio Fornaciari

The best way to deal with vampires, of course, is to prevent them from coming back in the first place. A few centuries ago in Europe this was often accomplished by staking suspected vampires in their graves; the idea was to physically pin the vampire to the earth, and the chest was chosen because it's the trunk of the body. This tradition was later reflected in popular fiction depicting wooden stakes as dispatching vampires. There was no particular significance to using wood; according to folklore, vampires - like djinn (genies) and many other magical creatures - fear iron, so an iron bar would be even more effective than a wooden stake.

Other traditional methods of killing vampires include decapitation and stuffing the severed head's mouth with garlic or a brick. In fact, suspected vampire graves have been found with just such signs. According to a 2012 Live Science article, "The body of the woman was found in a mass grave on the Venetian island of Nuovo Lazzaretto. Suspecting that she might be a vampire, a common folk belief at the time, gravediggers shoved a rock into her skull to prevent her from chewing through her shroud and infecting others with the plague, said anthropologist Matteo Borrini of the University of Florence." Other researchers later challenged this interpretation, and suggested that the brick may not have been placed in the mouth after all, but instead was one of many bricks surrounding the body that merely fell there after burial. Whether that burial reflected an accused vampire or not, other graves are much clearer. In 2013, archaeologists in Bulgaria found two skeletons with iron rods through their chests; the pair are believed to have been accused vampires, according to an article in Archaeology magazine.

The skull of the "vampire of Venice," found in a mass grave with a brick stuck in its jaw.

Credit: Matteo Borrini

If your local villagers neglected to unearth and stake a suspected vampire and he or she has returned from the grave, there are steps you can take to protect yourself. The exact method varies around the world, but in some traditions the best way to stop a vampire is to carry a small bag of salt with you. If you are being chased, you need only to spill the salt on the ground behind you, at which point the vampire is obligated to stop and count each and every grain before continuing the pursuit. If you don't have salt handy, some say that any small granules will do, including birdseed or sand. Salt was often placed above and around doorways for the same reason.

Some traditions hold that vampires cannot enter a home unless formally invited in. This may have been an early form of the modern "stranger danger" warnings to children, a scary reminder against inviting unknown people into the house.

There are, of course, a few truly vampiric animals, including leeches, lampreys and vampire bats. And in all these cases the vampire's intent is to draw enough blood for sustenance, but not enough to kill the host.

But what about human vampires? There are certainly many self-identified vampires who participate in gothic-inspired subcultures. Some host vampire-themed book clubs or secret bloodletting rituals; others wear capes or get vampire-fang dental implants. It's all frightening and fun, but blood drinking is another matter entirely. The problem is that blood is toxic; because it is so rich in iron - and because the human body has difficulty excreting excess iron - anyone who consumes blood regularly runs a real risk of haemochromatosis (iron overdose), which can cause a wide variety of diseases and problems, including liver and nervous system damage.

In one form or another, vampires have been part of human culture and folklore in different forms for millennia, and the bloodsuckers show no signs of going away any time soon.

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Vampires are a perennial favorite around Halloween, but they can be found year-round in movies and on television, in books and on blogs. The public's thirst for vampires seems as endless as vampires' thirst for blood. Modern writers of vampire fiction, including Stephenie Meyer, Anne Rice, Stephen King and countless others, have a rich vein of vampire lore to draw from.

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Red Flag: I would use Agenticity as a Red Flag as people often tend to pile meaning to the unseen.  The things that can't be explained is what people use as a way to create tales about which eventually will be believed by others.
Flaws: The flaws I have seen in this image is how the Warewolf looks like. over centuries people have created their own version of how the warewolf looks like, as obviously Warewolfs don't look like this.

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Description: This image of the witches shows a stereotypes of how they look like. The pointy hats, the black robes, pointy nose and charm necklaces is all a stereotype that people have for witches.
Red Flag: I would use simplicity as people tend to believe the easiest answer to go with the whole image of witches.
Flaws:The flaws i see in this image is the whole image of how the witches look like. The pointy nose and the outfit. There are some people who do believe in witchcraft but they don't look like that.

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Description: In this website they talk about how the tale of Santa Claus came to life in America. St. Nicholas or "Santa Claus" was an average man in Rome who would give toys or treats to kids in return for hay or carrots for his horses. Over time this tale came to America and St. Nicholas became Santa Claus, a fat man who wore a red coat, flew on his reindeers and had Elfs' making the toys for him. Some kids believe in Santa Claus to the age of maturity.
Red Flag: One red flag would be Proof by Verbosity. Parents would go through all the trouble of setting cookies and milk on the table and buying kids gifts that they wrote to Santa just to make sure those kids continue to believe in Santa Claus.
Flaws: The flaws I've seen was how In every country or century they had their own version of Santa Claus which makes it confusing if Santa Claus is even real or not

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It wasn't until 1809 that Santa Clause got fat, and by the late 1800s he was wearing the full red suit with the fur trim and leather boots. Image

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Like America itself, the jolly figure we call Santa Claus is a melting pot of cultures, blending elements of folklore with the fantastical.

Santa Claus the man is actually loosely rooted in fact, though he hasn't always looked the way he does today, having evolved from a gift-giving Catholic saint who lived during the third century.

The Protestant Reformation and the emigration of European traditions to America morphed that pious figure into the red-suited character that is now one of the most famous images in the world, complete with his iconic army of elves and a magical transportation system.

St. Nicholas the Generous

Ol' St. Nick wasn't always the rotund, bearded fellow you see gracing Christmas cards. The historical St. Nicholas was the revered Bishop of Myra, a Roman town in what is now Turkey. Born around the year 270 A.D., historians believe, Nicholas became bishop as a young man.

Nicholas was dedicated to helping the poor throughout his life, famously (and anonymously) paying for the dowries of impoverished girls. His reputation as a secret gift-giver around town grew with time, and he became known especially for depositing coins or treats in the shoes of children who would place them out for that very purpose, sometimes in exchange for carrots or hay left for his horses. Nicholas is traditionally depicted wearing a red bishop's cloak, and was often helped by a small orphan boy, according to some legends.

Canonized after his death, St. Nicholas was named as the patron saint of children, sailors and all of Greece, among others. He remained a popular figure of worship through the Middle Ages, with elaborate feasts held each year on the date of his death - Dec. 6 - and small gifts given to children, usually in their shoes, in his honor.

Dutch revival

The Protestant Reformation of the 16th century, when the veneration of Catholic saints was suppressed in many regions of Europe, saw a drop in the popularity of St. Nicholas.

Only in The Netherlands was the celebration of St. Nicholas kept alive in the form of Sinterklaas, a kindly figure who traveled from house to house on the evening of Dec. 5, leaving treats or presents in children's shoes in exchange for a snack for his horses, according to folklore.

In the Dutch tradition, Sinterklaas wore red bishop's robes, had elfin assistants, and rode his horses over rooftops before slipping down the chimney to deliver the gifts.

Coming to America

Sinterklaas came to America with the Dutch in the 17th and 18th centuries, and it was in the new colonies that he really evolved.

The anglicizing of the name - from Sinterklaas to Santa Claus - happened by 1773, when the latter was referenced for the first time, in a New York City newspaper. Santa's waistline expanded in 1809 with the publication of author Washington Irving's book "A History of New York," in which the big man is described as portly and smoking a pipe instead of as a lanky bishop.

In an 1822 poem entitled "A Visit from Saint Nicholas" - more commonly called "Twas the Night Before Christmas" - by Clement Moore, Santa is further imagined with a magic sleigh powered by reindeer, a sack full of toys, and a round stomach, "like a bowl full of jelly."

By the late 1800s, most depictions of Santa Claus followed this imagery, but the final cog in the Claus legend was provided by Coca-Cola ad illustrator Haddon Sundblom, whose 1930s red-suited Santa, complete with white-fur trim and leather boots, became the iconic standard recognizable today.

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Description: This image of the Easter bunny is a myth brought to America from Germans. The Easter bunny, also known the spring bunny, is known to brings baskets filled with coloured  eggs, candy, and sometimes toys to the homes of children on the night before Easter.
Red Flag: I would also use emotional connection as a Red Flag as kids do tend to connect to the Easter bunny in an emotional way. This is caused by many reasons, for example they emotionally connect to the treats the Easter bunny brings which makes these young ones look forward to this day.
Flaws: A few flaws I have seen in this image is that fact that a rabbit is holding a basket which in reality is not possible to do so. Therefore obviously this tradition/holiday is just a myth.

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Description: In this video you can see several clips of people experiencing or seeing ghosts. The only explanation for them would be a ghost/spirit as they say it couldn't be a human running thorough the crowd on the bleachers. I don't think a smudge on the window represent a ghost. Also on the second clip as we see the shadow on the wall in the restaurant that could have been a simple indication of a shadow. the fact that the person walked out of the restaurant could have been for many reasons so jumping to conclusions that the person left the place purely because of the "ghost" is unreliable.
Red Flag: I would use Unexplained in this case because in this video no one really knew what those images or shadows were so that is when we would try to explain it for our selves.
Flaws: The few flaws I have discovered from this video was that the spokes person in the video would quickly assume that these unexplained things would be a ghost without further details. Furthermore, we don't know if these images or videos were photoshopped or not.

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Description: As you can see in this video a few people have spotted aliens here and there. I don't think seeing some shapes in the air would count as an aliens as we are not sure exactly if aliens exist.
Red Flag: I would say this would be mystical energy as there are many mystical things about aliens and the way they were portrayed in this video.
Flaws: The only flaw I saw is that any part of this could have been photoshopped. Agenticity
the tendency to assign meaning, intention, and agency , often to invisible beings.

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Description: In this News video they talk about Big Foot and how the father and son have seen Big Foot while they were out camping. As I saw the video it seems as if that 'figure' could have been an actual person, so jumping to a conclusion that this is Big Foot would be too soon.
The Red flag can be Confirmation bias. As you can see although that figure/shape could have been anything, they immediately assumed it was Big Foot. They look for any information or sign that is beneficial to there theory and thoughts.
Flaws: One flaw would be that there was nothing else that would suggest it was BigFoot, and the picture shown in the video was very unclear as it could have literally been anything.