Miller wrote: “To dream of seeing an adder strike, and a friend, who is dead but seems to be lying down and breathing,…” 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
Adder · Heading 34; source lines 1982–1994 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream of seeing an adder strike, and a friend, who is dead but seems to be lying down and breathing, rises partly to a sitting position when the adder strikes at him, and then both disappearing into some bushes nearby, denotes that you will be greatly distressed over the ill luck of friends, and a loss threatened to yourself.
For a young woman to see an adder, foretells a deceitful person is going to cause her trouble. If it runs from her, she will be able to defend her character in attacks made on her.
Felix Fontaine
The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller · 1862
Adder · Heading 13; source line 1029 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream of this reptile is a sign that some one whom you think friendly to you will injure you in some way.
A. H. Noe
The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller · New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885
Adder · Dream section, heading 30; source lines 215–216 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
A person that dreams of the asp and the adder, is thereby betokened to have stores of money and rich wives.
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