Ultimately that belief falls into the same category as a superstition, like the evil eye or the tooth fairy.

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Most serious regulation-watchers would say that anyone who buys that number must also believe in the largess of the Tooth Fairy.

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"I felt like Father Christmas or the Tooth Fairy, " he said.

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The question, which I (sadly) never did ask, was what my father proposed to do with the Tooth Fairy if he were ever successful in catching it.

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Joining up with Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, the Tooth Fairy, and the Sandman, Jack Frost learns a few things about himself, his past, and his purpose.

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In fact, I was crying with sadness, imagining how devastated my father would have felt as a child had he been successful in trapping the Tooth Fairy.

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If only our earliest encounters with money, like getting a quarter for cleaning our room or a whole dollar from the Tooth Fairy, taught us what we would need to know about personal finance.

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From his cell, Lecter helps Graham to track the savage Tooth Fairy, whose real name is Dolarhyde (Ralph Fiennes), and whose identity Graham is strangely slow to unveil.

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