What are they saying?

_Elsa_

Elsa reads what they have to say about him. 

‘Each year, the Easter Bunny hops into our homes to leave us Easter treats, but have you ever wondered why, on a religious holiday that has absolutely nothing to do with rabbits?

Essentially, Easter became what it is today after Christians combined their celebrations of Christ’s resurrection with the traditional Pagan festival that celebrated Eostre (or Ostara), the goddess of dawn, fertility, and spring. Since Eostre’s image was closely linked with symbols of the egg and the hare, you can see how our egg hunts came to be. However, kids still today aren’t cool with that giant bunny, especially when it comes to sitting on his lap in a mall. That same giant bunny they hated at the mall, though, can come into their house while they’re asleep—just as long as he leaves candy.’ (Source) 

“They didn’t have much to say about me either,” says the Tooth Fairy. “A magical flying being that wants your teeth. That is a terrible to say that about me!” 

‘Ah, the Tooth Fairy, the magical flying being that wants your teeth. While the modern tooth fairy didn’t really become a thing until sometime in the nineteenth century, tooth-loss traditions have been around for much longer. And according to Donald Capps and Nathan Carlin in The Tooth Fairy: Psychological Issues Related to Baby Tooth Loss and Mythological Working Through, “… virtually every country in the world has a lost tooth tradition involving a ritual performed by the child who has lost the tooth…” 

Over the years, these traditions have included burning the baby teeth, burying the baby teeth, and giving them to animals. In the nineteenth century, it was the tooth mouse who started bring back small gifts—maybe a coin, maybe a snack. By the 1940s, the story had gone from mouse to fairy (besides in Spain, whose children still get gifts from El Ratoncito Peréz, pictured below), and became popular in parts of North America and Europe. 

In Norse culture, Vikings actually paid kids for their discarded teeth, as they believed the teeth gave them good luck. Warriors wore their kids’ baby teeth around their necks during battle, like a really creepy necklace that somehow brought them good fortune. Europeans even once thought that witches could gain total control over a person if they were able to get ahold of their teeth—yikes.’ (Source) 

Let’s continue – Cupid too? 

Start at the beginning – A story about childhood imagination and make believe