Those things are mundane in that context.
Case in point, if you spent time with people who live in Sub-Saharan Africa and have elephants raid their crops, lions kill their kids, or hippos and crocs make every waterway dangerous, all those stuffed animals and children's books about the zoo that Western children have are full of genuine monsters. Real life, dangerous killers. And your baby from Iowa says "bi-bo-bopimous" and it's cute? Hippos murder people daily.
Also, you forget that plenty of people also genuinely believe in and practice magic, give things to house elves and fae, banish spirits, and take potions. That context doesn't make stories any more or less valid. Stories make stories valid. And any context or setting removed from your own, is exotic to you.
Just play on an emulator. Save states anywhere you want.