Interpreting a true phenomenon in terms you could understand is a normal and rational thing for us humans. Wheels and fire really do exist. You can bet that the bloke who came up with that one had mates who were only too happy to pick holes in his notion. They bore the germ of the null hypothesis. Which is precisely how we progress. Take another one, a dragon eating the sun during a solar eclipse. Well it did look like the sun was gradually having a chunk taken out of it, there was little understanding of space and the distance from us of the sun or of its dimensions, and dragons, fantastical as they were in Chinese mythology, were still bilaterally symmetrical beasts and recognisably reptilian. We were making big stretches in order to explain things in those cases but we were still clinging to familiar ideas, no matter how tenuously applied. Rationality was being severely pulled about but it clung on. With deities, fairies and telepathy we have made huge jumps beyond the rational. We have no means of investigating or explaining the phenomena we have invented (pejorative intended). Human imagination and the unending quest for knowledge is at the very centre of our human-ness. Science has made the progress it has by keeping its feet on the ground, standing with arms akimbo and sternly frowning on anyone throwing in the irrational. That'll do me for now.