Miller wrote: “Seeing acorns in dreams, is portent of pleasant things ahead, and much gain is to be expected.” Compare 5 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
Acorn · Heading 27; source lines 1870–1890 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
Seeing acorns in dreams, is portent of pleasant things ahead, and much gain is to be expected.
To pick them from the ground, foretells success after weary labors.
For a woman to eat them, denotes that she will rise from a station of labor to a position of ease and pleasure.
To shake them from the trees, denotes that you will rapidly attain your wishes in business or love.
To see green-growing acorns, or to see them scattered over the ground, affairs will change for the better. Decayed or blasted acorns have import of disappointments and reverses.
To pull them green from the trees, you will injure your interests by haste and indiscretion.
Felix Fontaine
The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller · 1862
Acorn · Heading 10; source line 1016 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
(See Oak.) To dream you see swine eating acorns denotes that you will have reverses in business, and lose if you are not very careful; to dream of picking acorns signifies that a rich relative will leave you a fortune.
A. H. Noe
The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller · New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885
Acorns · Dream section, heading 16; source lines 134–139 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream of acorns do not slight, It promises both strength and might.
Astra Cielo
Fortunes and Dreams · New York, George Sully, 1917
Acorns · Dream section, heading 7; source lines 3869–3871 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
Are a sign of loss of money or of love.
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
Acorns · Printed p. 196; NLM OCR lines 8941–8948 · OCR transcription
Original source (English)
A good dream according to Artemidorus, auguring health, wealth and happiness. If single, a happy marriage. Frazier describes acorns as articles of food through certain parts of Europe and therefore held in regard as a symbol of well-being. They also bore a certain significance as associated with the sacred fire in the worship of Zeus at Dodona. Bayley gives it as a phallic symbol.
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