Throwing Teeth On The Roof Greece

Throw your tooth on the roof was a very exciting book to read seems perfect to read before bed.

Throwing teeth on the roof greece.

Children in greece throw their teeth on the roof for good luck. You throw the upper teeth down to the dirt and the lower teeth up to the roof. Children in greece throw their teeth on the roof for good luck. Then they make a wish that their adult teeth will be healthy and strong.

Children in guatemala put their tooth under their pillow and wait for a mouse to take their tooth away and leave them some money. Then they make a wish that their adult teeth will be healthy and strong. Egyptian children throw their lost teeth to the sun wrapped it in tissue. If children think a visit from the tooth fairy is the only way to trade in baby teeth they re in for a surprise.

Children in greece throw their teeth on the roof for good luck. Japan has a belief that separates their lower and upper teeth. Enjoy the videos and music you love upload original content and share it all with friends family and the world on youtube. They also recite a little rhyme which comes out to something like take sow my tooth and give me an iron one so that i can chew rusks in some regions of greece it is a mouse not a sow which is invoked.

Beeler s funny and intriguing sampling of lost tooth traditions from around the world shows that teeth are every bit as likely to end up down a mouse hole in the stomach of a dog or on the roof of a house as they are under a pillow. Historically kids who lose teeth from their lower jaw will throw their teeth onto their roof while upper jaw teeth go on the floor or even under it the idea is the new tooth will be pulled. They also recite a little rhyme which comes out to something like take sow my tooth and give me an iron one so that i can chew rusks in some regions of greece it is a mouse not a sow which is invoked. Children in greece will toss their baby teeth onto the roof and make a wish for their teeth to grow strong and healthy.

I was pleasantly surprised to see the greek custom of throwing the milk tooth onto the roof a custom i was interested to learn is also pracitised in korea and taiwan. Take sow my tooth and. Also a lot of cultures had the tradition of throwing their tooth on the roof. Are you following a tradition that s the sam.

Infact in greece the throwing of the tooth onto the roof is accompanied by the reciting of a little rhyme which can be loosely translated as follows.