Chickasaw The Chickasaw ( ) are an indigenous people of the Southeastern Woodlands. Their traditional territory was in the Southeastern United States of Mississippi, Alabama, and Tennessee as well in southwestern Kentucky. Their language is classif ...

mythology, Panti is a fabulous beast with exceptionally lovely teeth which it will exchange for lost

baby teeth Deciduous teeth or primary teeth, also informally known as baby teeth, milk teeth, or temporary teeth,Illustrated Dental Embryology, Histology, and Anatomy, Bath-Balogh and Fehrenbach, Elsevier, 2011, page 255 are the first set of teeth in the ...

. It is similar to creatures like the

Tooth Fairy The Tooth Fairy is a fantasy figure of early childhood in Western and Western-influenced cultures. The folklore states that when children lose one of their baby teeth, they should place it underneath their pillow or on their bedside table and ...

and

Ratoncito Pérez El Ratoncito Pérez or Ratón Pérez ( ''Perez the Little Mouse'' or ''Perez Mouse'') is a fantasy figure of early childhood in Spanish and Hispanic American cultures. The folklore states that when children lose one of their milk teeth, they sho ...

.Munro, Pamela. ''Chickasaw: An Analytical Dictionary''. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1994. pp.297 & 468.

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Chickasaw Legendary creatures of the indigenous peoples of North America Tooth fairies {{NorthAm-myth-stub