• Creation: materialization of creator's thinking. Creator "thinks outward in space" and thus produces the universe. A612
• Faithful animal plans suicide when it thinks master dead. B301.3
• Llewellyn and his dog. Dog has saved child from serpent. Father sees bloody mouth, thinks the dog has eaten the child, and kills the dog. B331.2
• Faithful dog killed by overhasty master: thinks mistakenly he has returned home against orders. (Cf. Llewellyn and his dog.) B331.2.2
• Magic fish talk so that ogre thinks hero has many brothers with him. (Cf. B175.) D1613.1
• Death thought sleep. Resuscitated person thinks he has been sleeping. He exclaims, "How long I have been asleep!" E175
• Giant comes to bake too soon; spills dough. Giant who has common oven with another thinks he hears companion in next valley scraping the kneading trough. He bakes his dough but finds he is too early and that he has only heard himself scratching. He spills the dough: hence fruitful soil. (Cf. F451.7.2, F455.3.5.) F531.3.7
• Giant thinks hammer-blow on head is a nut falling. Man strikes with all his might. F531.5.4
• Giant thinks shower of stones is snowfall. F531.5.4.1
• Giant's head gnawed by foxes: thinks soot is falling on him. F531.5.4.2
• Prince thinks he has slept on a beam; a hair is found on lower bedding. F647.9.1
• Unwitting cannibalism: scavenger in wedding feast finds basket of noses put there by hero and thinks it full of meat. G63
• Father's counsel: dam up the outlets. (Keep expenditures down – not outlets of rice-field as son-in-law thinks). H588.9
• Riddle of the murdered lover. With what thinks, I drink; what sees, I carry; with what eats I walk. (Queen has cup made from skull of her murdered lover; ring with one of his eyes; she carries two of his teeth in her boots.) H805
• Rose given by supernatural wife to husband when he leaves for home will shed as many petals as times he thinks of her. H1556.4.6
• "Do not act when angry": counsel proved wise by experience. Man returns home and sees someone sleeping with his wife. Though he thinks it is a paramour, he restrains himself and finds that it is a newborn son. J21.2
• Earthen and brazen pots in river. Brazen pot thinks that they should stay together for company. Earthen pot, however, fears approach of brazen pot. J425.1
• The king and the cheap slippers. Steward buys the king a pair of slippers. King thinks not enough has been paid for them and refuses them. Steward buys another like the first and charges a good price. Learns that this is the way to deal with kings. J829.1
• Ass follows after lion and is punished. Ass and cock are surprised by lion. Cock crows and scares lion, who runs. Ass thinks that he has scared lion and pursues. J952.2
• Ass who has worked with ox thinks himself equal to ox. J952.4

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• ATU 1211 The Cow Chewing its Cud (previously The Peasant Woman Thinks the Cow Chewing her Cud is Mimicking Her)
• ATU 1531 Lord for a Day (previously The Man Thinks he has Been in Heaven)
• ATU 1739A* A Miser Gives Birth to a Child (previously Man Thinks he has Given Birth to a Child by Letting Wind)