He found in front of him a little mouse with a hat, some small glasses and a red backpack. After a while something brushed his forehead and he woke up. The mouse was late in arriving and the king could not help falling asleep. The young king therefore carefully tucked his tooth under the pillow and sat on his bed waiting to have a conversation with the famous Tooth Fairy. The story of the Ratoncito Pérez was written by Luis Coloma in the 19th centuryĪfter long conversations among those who were in favor of turning the tooth into a royal jewel or offering it to the image of the Virgin, the queen, mother of the king, decided that he would write a letter to the Ratoncito Pérez so that, as tradition dictated, collect the tooth that was deposited under the pillow in exchange for a gift. The court guard took it to the queen and the council of ministers to decide what to do with it. After tying it with a silk thread, the doctor managed to remove it cleanly and without any setback, his white tooth looking like a shiny pearl.
After much deliberation the court physician decided that he should be removed.
King Bubi I, who was only 6 years old, began to move a tooth when he ate a soup. For this reason, he prohibited mousetraps and established laws to persecute those who tried to harm small rodents. Legend has it that King Bubi I was a great friend of the poor and a fervent protector of mice. Here is a reduced version of Luis Coloma’s original story: The story of the Tooth Fairy Twenty years later Coloma is hired by Queen María Cristina to wrote a story to his son, King Alfonso XIII, about a child king whose teeth have just fallen out and is visited by this mouse. The writer Luis Coloma was inspired by a figure of a mouse named Ratón Pérez that first appeared in a story called ‘Tales, prayers, riddles and popular sayings’ from 1877. However, little is known about the history of this famous mouse, an emblematic figure of Spanish folklore. Some have a worse time than others, but in the end all the children are happy because in exchange for their teeth they receive a gift under the pillow, which is specially brought to them by the Tooth Fairy. It is a stage that all children go through: tooth decay.
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