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- Creation: materialization of creator's thinking. Creator "thinks outward in space" and thus produces the universe. A612
- Man springs into existence from deity's body by his mere thinking. A1211.0.1
- Worm, thinking that world is coming to end, blinds self so as not to see calamity. (Cf. A2332.6.4.) A2284.3
- Person summoned by thinking of him. D2074.2.1
- Mowing contest with household spirit. Farmer puts harrow teeth in plot spirit is to mow. Spirit mows through them, thinking they are dock weeds. F488.2
- Woman dies of broken heart on learning that her former husband is still alive. She had remarried thinking him dead. F1041.1.3.7
- Man dies from frog's bite, thinking it snakebite. F1041.1.11.4
- Devil helps build Halberstadt Cathedral thinking a tavern is being built. G303.9.1.12
- Devil cannot enter person who is thinking of God. G303.16.2.1.1
- Jinn falls into cauldron of boiling oil, thinking it is food. G512.3.4
- Test: which of twins is elder. Younger unthinkingly hands chopsticks to elder and thus betrays his junior rank. H255
- "What am I thinking?" "That I am the priest." So answers youth masking as priest. H524.1
- Test of curiosity: the paternoster. Plowman is promised a horse if he can say a paternoster without thinking of anything else. In the midst of the recitation, he asks if he will get the saddle and bridle too. He loses bargain. H1554.3
- Difficulty of thinking of God when occupied with worldly affairs. Shown by test: holy man made to carry milk without spilling. So occupied he forgets to think of God. J94
- Consolation by thinking of some good aspect of a situation. J865
- Consolation by thinking of the past. J866
- Poor man consoles self by thinking of misfortunes of rich. J883
- Man in cold consoles himself thinking of rich men in hell or prison. J883.2
- His proper title. A peasant goes to a judge and thinking to gain his favor addresses him with high titles. The judge calls him a fool. "I was mistaken, you swine!" J1286
- One basket of wit better than twelve carloads of it. Female jackal saves herself and husband by quick thinking. (Cf. K622.1.) J1662.1