Miller wrote: “To dream of looking into an abyss, means that you will be confronted by threats of seizure of property,…” 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
Abyss · Heading 18; source lines 1758–1770 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream of looking into an abyss, means that you will be confronted by threats of seizure of property, and that there will be quarrels and reproaches of a personal nature which will unfit you to meet the problems of life.
For a woman to be looking into an abyss, foretells that she will burden herself with unwelcome cares. If she falls into the abyss her disappointment will be complete; but if she succeeds in crossing, or avoiding it, she will reinstate herself.
Felix Fontaine
The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller · 1862
Abyss · Heading 6; source line 1000 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To see an abyss, or deep hole, is a warning; avoid, after such a dream, taking a journey by land, or a voyage by sea, for eight-and forty hours, because it forebodes accidents by travelling.
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
Abyss · Printed p. 195; NLM OCR lines 8920–8924 · OCR transcription
Original source (English)
Impending danger, a dream of warning (Artemidorus); an erotic dream of warning (Freud); physiologists interpret this dream as a symptom of vertigo, due to apoplexy, etc.
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