@ladyrebecca, your posts draw me right in. I was just talking about language and myths regarding Judeo-Christian and Islamic religious texts last night with my son. Following one of the links you provided, then another within that link, answered a few questions he and I had! You are talking about a time well before ours, but still quite relevant, just as the stories are still relevant today.
I tried to find a list of those 76 stories and failed. Beauty and the Beast and The Smith and the Devil are in there, but Hansel and Gretel is not.
It's interesting that modern science is trying to elaborate on magic.