Miller wrote: “To dream of an alley, denotes your fortune will not be so pleasing or promising as formerly.” Compare 2 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
Alley · Heading 66; source lines 2310–2319 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream of an alley, denotes your fortune will not be so pleasing or promising as formerly. Many vexing cares will present themselves to you.
For a young woman to wander through an alley after dark, warns her of disreputable friendships and a stigma on her character.
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
Alley · Printed p. 196; NLM OCR lines 8949–8952 · OCR transcription
Original source (English)
Loss of property is augured here, a plausible interpretation from the gypsy standpoint, while the Freudian erotic meaning is less obvious.
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