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Abbot, Abbess, Hermit, Monk, Nun, or Priest

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Craig wrote: “To dream of becoming one, calmness in passion.”

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SOURCE ACCOUNT

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

Abbot, Abbess, Hermit, Monk, Nun, or Priest · Printed p. 195; NLM OCR lines 8905–8911 · OCR transcription

Original source heading: Abbot, Abbess, Hermit, Monk, Nun, or Priest

Original source (English)

To dream of becoming one, calmness in passion. Merely to dream of one, pride, or malice of which the dreamer will be the victim. The significance of this dream is evidently due to the regard in which the clergy of past ages held their gypsy brethren.

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