Miller wrote: “To see an abbey in ruins, foretells that your hopes and schemes will fall into ignoble incompletion.” Compare 3 historical dream books.
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Gustavus Hindman Miller
Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream · Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints
Abbey · Heading 2; source lines 1577–1590 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To see an abbey in ruins, foretells that your hopes and schemes will fall into ignoble incompletion.
To dream that a priest bars your entrance into an abbey, denotes that you will be saved from a ruinous state by enemies mistaking your embarrassment for progress.
For a young woman to get into an abbey, foretells her violent illness. If she converses with a priest in an abbey, she will incur the censure of true friends for indiscretion.
Astra Cielo
Fortunes and Dreams · New York, George Sully, 1917
Abbey · Dream section, heading 2; source lines 3854–3857 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
The ruins of an abbey mean good fortune; if seen by moonlight, wealth.
Katherine Taylor Craig
The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern · New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition
Abbey · Printed p. 195; NLM OCR lines 8901–8904 · OCR transcription
Original source (English)
Not mentioned by Artemidorus. Dream-books define this dream as one of comfort, peace of mind, etc. The symbolism of sanctuary is obvious.
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