Lose your tooth in Greece? Better toss it on the roof. Here are some cultural discrepancies that might strike you as bizarre while you're abroad.
1. When kids lose their teeth in Greece (and reportedly other countries), they throw them on the roof.
According to one source:
The tooth is... thrown up on the roof of the house for a pig to take. A rhyme is chanted, which loosely translates: “Take sow my tooth and give me an iron one so that I can chew rusks.