Through the analysis of the short story "Fascinacao", included in Fascinacao seguido de A Dama Pe de Cabra, by Helia Correia, and the novella "O fisico prodigioso", by Jorge de Sena, this article explores the imaginative freedom provided by the medieval setting in order to explain how fantasy Medievalism creates in contemporary fiction a sense of strangeness linked to the expression of the ambiguous, the androgynous and the libidinal impulses.