conjure up

verb

1. To create or produce something, seemingly magically.
2. To call up or command a spirit or devil by an incantation.
3. To generate (an image or an idea) in one's mind.

   “Like most persons utterly unused to deception, she could not imagine how it was to be managed; and her thoughts conjured up every probable and improbable embarrassment that might occur.”

   “Few concepts are as emotionally charged as that of race. The word conjures up a mixture of associations—culture, ethnicity, genetics, subjugation, exclusion and persecution. But is the tragic history of efforts to define groups of people by race really a matter of the misuse of science, the abuse of a valid biological concept?”