books.google.co.uk - Throughout the Middle Ages, enormously popular bestiaries presented people with descriptions of rare and unusual animals, typically paired with a moral or religious lesson. The real and the imaginary blended seamlessly in these books--at the time, the existence of a rhinoceros was as credible as a unicorn...http://books.google.co.uk/books/about/The_Earwig_s_Tail.html?id=FOlpPl_15csC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareThe Earwig's Tail
