Miller wrote: “Alms will bring evil if given or taken unwillingly. Otherwise, a good dream.” Compare 4 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
Alms · Heading 71; source lines 2343–2347 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
Alms will bring evil if given or taken unwillingly. Otherwise, a good dream.
Felix Fontaine
The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller · 1862
Alms · Heading 19; source line 1056 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream they are begged of you, and you refuse them, shows want and misery to the dreamer; but to dream you give them freely, is a sign of joy and long life.
A. H. Noe
The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller · New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885
Alms · Dream section, heading 5; source lines 104–106 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream that they are begged of you, and you deny to give them, shows want and misery to the dreamer; but to dream you give them freely is a sign of joy and gladness.
Astra Cielo
Fortunes and Dreams · New York, George Sully, 1917
Alms · Dream section, heading 9; source lines 3874–3877 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
Giving alms denotes good fortune, receiving alms means loss of money.
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