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- Cobra writes letters on prince's tongue: "Having heard all kinds of creatures talk, you will understand them." B165.1.3
- Dead man writes. E557
- Ghost writes on wall the answers to problems of person in trouble. E557.1
- Sight miraculously restored while poet writes hymn (poem). F952.0.1
- Hand from heaven writes on wall. F1036
- Devil writes into book names of those who call on him. G303.6.1.2.1
- Devil writes faults of man on goat skin. G303.24.1.2
- Devil writes down names of men on a hide in church. Woman laughs when she sees him. G303.24.1.3
- Devil stands in church door and writes down names of his own people on a sheepskin. G303.24.1.4
- Devil writes down all idle words spoken in church. His parchment is not long enough and he has to stretch it. G303.24.1.6
- Devil writes names of those who sleep in church. G303.24.1.7
- Devil writes down names of those who look backwards in church. G303.24.1.7.2
- Devil writes down names of those who whisper in church. G303.24.1.8
- Queen writes message on stone which hero finds: he goes in search of her. H1229.2
- The weighted order-cards. To a man going on a voyage, various people give commissions for purchases, which he writes down on cards. Some give him money; some promise it on his return. On ship he looks the cards over, placing the proper gold on the proper card. A wind blows into the sea those not weighted with gold. J1382.2
- Carrying his own message. A man who is away from home writes a letter to his wife but can find no messenger. He delivers the letter himself and then goes on back to where he has been. J2242
- Fool writes letter very slowly: recipient cannot read fast. J2242.2
- Boastful fly-killer: "seven at a blow". A tailor who has killed seven flies writes on a placard: "Seven at a blow." He is received as a great warrior. K1951.1
- Prophecies from old man who writes in a book. M301.4
- Sibyl as prophet. Writes on leaves blown about by winds. (Cf. M302.8.) M301.21