Miller wrote: “This is a good omen. It has wealth in store.” Compare 5 historical dream books.
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These are the authors’ historical interpretations. Their forecasts and period judgments are preserved as source material, not as predictions or established meanings for your dream.
Gustavus Hindman Miller
Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream · Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints
Almonds · Heading 70; source lines 2336–2343 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
This is a good omen. It has wealth in store. However, sorrow will go with it for a short while. If the almonds are defective, your disappointment in obtaining a certain wish will be complete until new conditions are brought about.
Felix Fontaine
The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller · 1862
Almonds · Heading 17; source line 1051 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
Signify riches and happiness; to eat them shows you will have good luck in love matters.
A. H. Noe
The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller · New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885
Almonds · Dream section, heading 4; source lines 103–104 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream one sees or eats almonds, signifies difficulties and trouble.
Astra Cielo
Fortunes and Dreams · New York, George Sully, 1917
Almonds · Dream section, heading 8; source lines 3871–3874 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
If you dream of eating them it denotes an evil from which you will escape.
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
Almond · Printed p. 196; NLM OCR lines 8956–8961 · OCR transcription
Original source (English)
To dream of eating, future enjoyment, traveling in distant lands. If the almonds be bitter the journey will be unhappy. The almond has always been a sacred symbol throughout the orient. Bayley traces the name to al monde, meaning Lord of the World, sole protecting Lord.
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