books.google.com - Between 1550 and 1650, Europe was swept by a fascination with wondrous accounts of monsters and other marvels - of valiant men slaying dragons, women giving birth to animals, young girls growing penises, and all manner of fantastic phenomena. Known as 'fairy tales,' these stories had many guises and...http://books.google.com/books/about/Fairy_tale_Science.html?id=appnE41pMsEC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareFairy-tale Science