What mythical creatures /stories did your family participate in growing up?

[louise5754]

Growing up we had the Tooth Fairy, Easter Bunny and Father Christmas.

We do all the above now with our kids but also the elves visit at Christmas. They don't move or do the naughty activities you see your on Facebook though.

The eldest only believes in Santa now as I didn't want her friends to make fun of her. Youngest still believes.

Santa (I was quite old when I found out the truth).
Tooth fairy (figured that one out when my dad was left in charge of it as my mam was out and he forgot).
That was sort of it... The Easter Bunny was talked about but my family are Catholic so Easter was more about religion than anything else. We treated it like Christmas with the whole fam getting together, bit meal, swapping eggs etc. We did do an Easter egg hunt in the morning but I knew it was my dad who did all that.

Santa, Tooth fairy & Easter bunny but as pp Easter had more of a religious slant as also catholic.
I also believed in the bogey man!

My parents would decorate a lot for Christmas & we had homemade advent calendars, I do similar for my dc. Easter we had egg hunts & did crafts, do the same again. Tooth fairy, tooth under the pillow in exchange for money.

Father Christmas, and the Tooth Fairy.

We also have visits from the Beer Fairy who restocks the fridge with beer and wine. that might be me

Santa, Tooth Fairy, and Easter Bunny. Some talk of the Sandman who I was terrified of. A relative had a fairy tree on his land with a fairy ring maybe 3m across that couldn’t be entered. Not a person but the wind could change at any time and freeze your face forever in an expression. Thunder was the angels moving the furniture in heaven. Old folks told terrifying stories of the Banshee and once I saw fairy lights on the bog. Ghosts were considered a bit dubious but great store was set by dreams of the recently deceased.

When I was little we had the tooth fairy and Father Christmas.

My parents had an imaginary chicken in the garden called Henrietta, and they kept up the pretence that she laid eggs for years (even the ones with the lion mark stamped on them)

Oh, I forgot - we also had the washing-up fairy.

We didn't have Santa, but we had the tooth fairy, in which I believed for quite a long time.

Although my parents didn't "do" the Easter Bunny, a friend of theirs convinced me briefly, when I was six or seven. She told me I could sit in the garden while the Bunny hid eggs in front of me, but the Bunny was very shy, and would only come if I was blindfolded. I could hear her talking to me in her normal voice, but then suddenly I heard the Bunny's very different voice, from a totally different direction. I couldn't see a thing, so I didn't know she was cunningly playing both parts, disguising her voice and stealthily moving round. When she took my blindfold off, there were lots of eggs in the garden which weren't there before. It was a bit scary, I believed it for a while!

We had father Christmas,the tooth fairy,Easter bunny but this was introduced by school so we were neutral at home about it.
We also had trolls in the woods and hippos under the beds.
Aslo,look carefully at ducks swimming because some of these are hippos who tie ducks to their heads as camouflage.

Father Christmas
Tooth Fairy I think, but don't really have a clear memory.
Jack Valentine was the most fun and most exciting.

Just father Christmas and the tooth fairy.

Oh and god ;)
The only one I believed in was father Christmas

We had a troll who lived under drain covers (under which rushing water was heard). To deter my brother and me from dropping sticks and stones through gaps in the drain covers, this troll would bellow up from down below, sometimes threatening to "climb up, lift up the lid, and eat you up", or "I'll sail away in my little boat, and you'll never see me again!"

We did Father Christmas and the Tooth Fairy. I don’t remember the Easter Bunny being a thing in the 80s, might just have been my parents who didn’t do it though.

Fairies in general (not just the tooth kind). I was obsessed with them as a child and my mum encouraged it by replying to letters I wrote to them and convincing me that they had tidied my bedroom, leaving trinkets from them in my music box, etc. It made my childhood

None. We did have an extensive list of silly family things, but my mum really wasn't into santa etc

Father Christmas and Tooth Fairy.
I’ve never heard of the Easter Bunny until recently on here. Likewise Elf on Shelf.

Father Christmas, the tooth fairy, and fairies in general, like PP - letters from fairies, tiny cups made of silver foil and tulip petals made into something or other. Easter bunny definitely wasn’t a thing in the 80s in our house, we didn’t have egg hunts, we just got given eggs from family members, decorated real eggs and made Easter bonnets and nest cakes ot of chocolate and shredded wheat.

Father Christmas & the tooth fairy
Never the Easter bunny. Mum arranged the Easter egg hunts and gave us our main eggs .

I was born in 84 and we had the Easter bunny. My mum did too burn in 56