Well, the Haitian tooth fairy is actually a rat.
In Haiti, when children lose a tooth, they throw the tooth on the roof of their house and say, 'Rat, rat, rat! I am throwing you a beautiful tooth, send me a bad tooth'. Rat, rat, rat! Men yon bèl dan m voye pou ou, voye yon move dan pou mwen.
The belief is if to trick the tooth-hungry rat into accepting the bad tooth so that the child may grow the tooth back. If the child doesn't grow a tooth, then the rat didn't buy into the lie :)
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In Haiti, when children lose a tooth, they throw the tooth on the roof of their house and say, 'Rat, rat, rat! I am throwing you a beautiful tooth, send me a bad tooth'. Rat, rat, rat! Men yon bèl dan m voye pou ou, voye yon move dan pou mwen.
The belief is if to trick the tooth-hungry rat into accepting the bad tooth so that the child may grow the tooth back. If the child doesn't grow a tooth, then the rat didn't buy into the lie :)
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